RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

The sus­pect in the shoot­ing death of 15-year-old Is­abel­la Teelucks­ingh has sur­ren­dered to po­lice and is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are now call­ing on eye­wit­ness­es to come for­ward and lodge of­fi­cial re­ports to of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Re­gion 3.

Guardian Me­dia was told CCTV sur­veil­lance footage in the Savary Road area was tak­en by in­ves­ti­ga­tors to aid in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the 45-year-old walked in­to the San Fer­nan­do Homi­cide Bu­reau around 4 pm on Tues­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at 6.45 pm on Sun­day a 55-year-old man of Ka­cy Av­enue, Savary Road, Las Lo­mas #1 em­ployed with Hope Alive Old Age Home was at Sameer's Mi­ni Mart lo­cat­ed along Savary Road when the sus­pect, 45, dri­ving a sliv­er coloured Nis­san Cube reg­is­tra­tion un­known, saw him at the mi­ni mart.

Po­lice said the sus­pect stopped the ve­hi­cle walked up to the vic­tim and pro­ceed­ed to cuff him about the body. The sus­pect then got in­to the ve­hi­cle and drove home.

The po­lice re­port stat­ed that whilst at his home an ex­change of words al­leged­ly took place be­tween him and some of the vil­lagers who were stand­ing on the road. The sus­pect then al­leged­ly came out with a shot gun and fired one shot in their di­rec­tion hit­ting Teelucks­ingh, 15, of Ka­cy Av­enue, Savary Road and her aunt, 20, of Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni.

Teelucks­ingh was shot in the head, her aunt in the pelvic area and the fam­i­ly's dog 'Spot­ty' was al­so shot on top of the right shoul­der.

Teelucks­ingh and the aunt were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal where they were treat­ed and ward­ed. Teelucks­ingh, who was even­tu­al­ly placed on life sup­port, suc­cumbed to her in­juries around mid­day on Mon­day.

Her aunt un­der­went emer­gency surgery and is still ward­ed in hos­pi­tal.

Vil­lagers sub­se­quent­ly re­fut­ed the po­lice's re­port claim­ing that Teelucks­ingh was among a group of chil­dren on their way to a rel­a­tive's home when the sus­pect al­leged­ly shot them from a dis­tance.