Hours be­fore three friends from Moru­ga were shot and killed by a group of po­lice of­fi­cers in 2011, one of the of­fi­cers was told one of the vic­tim’s boyfriend was armed and dan­ger­ous and want­ed for three mur­ders.

Tes­ti­fy­ing in the of­fi­cers’ tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Car­la Brown-An­toine at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain on Tues­day, ASP An­der­son Pa­ri­man and re­tired Su­per­in­ten­dent Zamsheed Mo­hammed claimed that they pro­vid­ed the in­for­ma­tion to PC Glenn Singh hours be­fore Alana Dun­can, Ker­ron Ec­cles, and Abi­gail John­son were shot on Ju­ly 22, 2011.

Mo­hammed claimed that he re­ceived a call from Pa­ri­man, who then in­clud­ed Singh in a three-way call.

Pa­ri­man ad­mit­ted that dur­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, he told Singh that the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions was build­ing a case against Dun­can’s boyfriend Shum­ba James. He al­so told Singh that James was known to dri­ve a white Nis­san B15 and was “armed and dan­ger­ous”.

While be­ing cross-ex­am­ined by the of­fi­cers’ lawyer Is­rael Khan, SC, both men ad­mit­ted that they knew all six of­fi­cers for over 10 years pri­or to the shoot­ing and that they were not aware of any cor­rup­tion and dis­hon­esty al­le­ga­tions made against them.

The con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Mo­hammed, Pa­ri­man, and Singh was re­vealed when Se­nior Coun­sel Gilbert Pe­ter­son opened the State’s case against the of­fi­cers, last week.

Pe­ter­son stat­ed that James would tes­ti­fy that he bor­rowed a white Nis­san B15 from his broth­er and took Dun­can to the St Mary’s Po­lice Post where he had to re­port three times week­ly as part of his bail con­di­tions in re­la­tion to a pend­ing case he had be­fore the court.

Pe­ter­son stat­ed that af­ter com­plet­ing the process, James and Dun­can vis­it­ed sev­er­al near­by bars where they met with Dun­can and Ec­cles.

He claimed that when they were leav­ing one of the bars to pur­chase BBQ in Bar­rack­pore, James left in a car with two child­hood friends, while John­son, Dun­can, and Ec­cles fol­lowed in his broth­er’s car.

The shoot­ing oc­curred as John­son, Dun­can, and Ec­cles were dri­ving past the cor­ner of Rochard Dou­glas Road and Gun­ness Trace in Bar­rack­pore.

James and his friends wit­nessed the shoot­ing as they drove ahead of John­son, Dun­can, and Ec­cles.

In their de­fence, the of­fi­cers Sgt Khem­raj Sa­hadeo and PCs Re­nal­do Re­viero, Roger Nicholas, Safraz Ju­man, An­to­nio Ra­madin, and Singh are con­tend­ing that the three friends shot at them and they re­turned fire.

The of­fi­cers are al­so rep­re­sent­ed by Ul­ric Sker­ritt and Aris­sa Ma­haraj.

Elaine Green, Giselle Fer­gu­son-Heller, and Katiesha Am­brose-Per­sads­ingh are ap­pear­ing along­side Pe­ter­son for the State.

The tri­al is ex­pect­ed to re­sume this morn­ing.