Sev­en­teen years af­ter the mur­der of Kevin St John, the case has been solved by the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Cold Case Unit.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports around 12.05 am on May 7th, 2006 Kevin St John, 21, al­so called Al Capone, of Union Road, Four Roads, Diego Mar­tin was fa­tal­ly shot while he was at an all-fours lime at Jer­ry Street, Blue Basin Road, Diego Mar­tin.

The mat­ter was in­ves­ti­gat­ed by Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI) of­fi­cers Re­gion I who the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ex­haust­ed all av­enues avail­able to them at that time. The mat­ter was then re­ferred to the HBI, Cold Case Unit for as­sess­ment.

How­ev­er, a ma­jor crack in the case came when the file was re­viewed by Cold Case Spe­cial­ist Kirk Grif­fith who gen­er­at­ed an ex­ten­sive re­port with rec­om­men­da­tions and a clin­i­cal ap­proach was tak­en to bring clo­sure to the mat­ter.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tors of the unit pieced ev­i­dence to­geth­er and on May 23rd Kel­ly Shawn Allert was ar­rest­ed.

The pro­pri­etor ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court on May 29th charged with the mur­der of St John.

The 41-year-old Allert, of Akal Ex­ten­sion Road, San­ta Cruz was re­mand­ed and is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear on June 26th.