RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA
rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Res­i­dents of the qui­et com­mu­ni­ty at Welling­ton Road, Debe are dis­tressed about es­ca­lat­ing crime in their area.

It comes af­ter a man, whom they be­lieve is Venezue­lan, was mur­dered.

The iden­ti­ty of the de­ceased is still un­known. One of the spent shells found at the scene had a mark­ing from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Po­lice said around 10 pm, they re­ceived a dis­tress call from a man who said some­one had just been shot at the cor­ner of Welling­ton Road and Sub Of­fice Trace.  When of­fi­cers ar­rived, they saw the dead man slumped in a red Hyundai Elantra, which had crashed in­to an elec­tric­i­ty pole. He had been shot in the head.

One eye­wit­ness said they saw the red Elantra be­ing pur­sued by a sil­ver Nis­san B-15. The ve­hi­cles con­tin­ued speed­ing and went out of view.  Min­utes lat­er, when the wit­ness reached the Debe sub-of­fice, they heard the sound of rapid gun­fire.

Po­lice re­trieved 27 spent shells at the scene. Twen­ty-six were fired from a 9 mm se­mi-au­to­mat­ic re­volver, and one spent shell with a TTPS mark­ing, as well as two live rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, al­so were seized.

Guardian Me­dia will up­date this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.