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Relatives call on PM to step in as probe into 2022 triple police killing continues

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File: Michelle John grandmother of police shooting victim Isaiah Roberts at a candle light vigil at the corner of Chacon Street and Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, July 2022.

File: Michelle John grandmother of police shooting victim Isaiah Roberts at a candle light vigil at the corner of Chacon Street and Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, July 2022.

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Rel­a­tives of three men shot and killed by po­lice three years ago held a can­dle­light vig­il at the scene of the in­ci­dent last Wednes­day, call­ing for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to in­ter­vene.

A hand­ful of sup­port­ers gath­ered at Re­pub­lic Bank, In­de­pen­dence Square, to re­mem­ber 17-year-olds Isa­iah Roberts and Leonar­do Williams and 21-year-old Fabi­an Richards. The trio lived in Beetham Gar­dens.

The three were among six in a car on Ju­ly 2, 2022, which po­lice said was al­leged­ly stolen. At the end of a chase from Diego Mar­tin to In­de­pen­dence Square, po­lice claimed they were shot at and were forced to re­turn fire, killing the three and in­jur­ing a 15-year-old who was shot in the arm and grazed on the ab­domen and leg.

Au­top­sy re­ports showed Richards died from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds to the back of the head, neck and up­per limbs. Williams died from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds to the back, right but­tocks and fore­arm. Roberts died of mul­ti­ple gun­shots to the back of the head and right low­er back.

Po­lice claimed a Smith and Wes­son pis­tol was found in the car.

Speak­ing at the vig­il, Williams’ fa­ther, Leo, called on the Prime Min­is­ter to in­ter­vene as the case had been on­go­ing for too long.

“I re­spect the TTPS. I is a law-abid­ing cit­i­zen, but it is about time for we to dig out and root out the rogue el­e­ments in the TTPS. It is not fair when they do their crime against poor peo­ple chil­dren. I am griev­ing out my heart and we seek­ing jus­tice.

“I am beg­ging right now for this Gov­ern­ment, un­der Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her team, to look in­to this case right now be­cause they mur­der our chil­dren in cold blood in down­town Port-of-Spain,” Williams claimed.

In 2022, the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty sug­gest­ed that the mat­ter be sent for an in­quest.

Lead in­ves­ti­ga­tor Snr Supt Neil Bran­don-John died last year, be­fore the mat­ter was com­plet­ed. Be­fore his death in Oc­to­ber last year, he told Guardian Me­dia he was await­ing one doc­u­ment from the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre to com­plete his in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Guardian Me­dia was told that the doc­u­ment re­mains out­stand­ing.


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