Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

To­ba­go record­ed its sev­enth mur­der for the year on Mon­day night when a Calder Hall man was gunned down near his home. The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as 44-year-old Reynold “Butch­er” Al­leyne of Four Roads, Calder Hall.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 11.15 pm, Al­leyne’s cousin was lim­ing near­by when he heard three loud ex­plo­sions. Up­on check­ing, he found Al­leyne ly­ing in the road­way, un­re­spon­sive and bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

Al­leyne was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment. His time of death was record­ed at 11.42 pm by Dr Cud­joe.

Of­fi­cers from the To­ba­go Homi­cide Bu­reau re­spond­ed and cor­doned off the area as in­ves­ti­ga­tions be­gan.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Earl Elie told Guardian Me­dia that in­ves­ti­ga­tors have not yet es­tab­lished a mo­tive for the killing. Po­lice are ex­pect­ed to re­view CCTV footage from the area and in­ter­view res­i­dents as part of their en­quiries.

Up to this point last year, To­ba­go had record­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 23 mur­ders—more than three times the cur­rent fig­ure.

En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.