Trinidad and To­ba­go was rocked by sev­er­al shoot­ings over a 24-hour pe­ri­od, leav­ing four men dead in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents across the coun­try.

In El So­cor­ro, San Juan, pen­sion­er Gob­in De­onar­ine, 76, was shot sev­er­al times on the pave­ment in front of his home at Per­sad Lane around 1.20 am while play­ing cards with rel­a­tives and neigh­bours.

A gun­man re­port­ed­ly rode past on a bi­cy­cle and opened fire on the group.

De­onar­ine col­lapsed on the pave­ment and was rushed to hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at 1.30 am.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, at around 12.45 pm, po­lice were alert­ed to a man’s body spot­ted in the riv­er near Mor­vant Junc­tion by of­fi­cers from the Tran­sit Unit.

In Tarou­ba, 40-year-old Gary Grif­fith, who car­ries the same name as the for­mer com­mis­sion­er, was shot dead around 10.55 pm on Tues­day night at Derek Mur­ray Dri­ve, close to his home.

An anony­mous in­for­mant called the E999 Po­lice Com­mand Cen­tre af­ter hear­ing a gun­shot.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, a white Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled along­side Grif­fith as he walked, and its oc­cu­pants fired mul­ti­ple shots be­fore flee­ing.

Three spent 9mm cas­ings were re­cov­ered at the scene. Grif­fith was trans­port­ed to San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead at 11.29 pm.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are prob­ing the in­ci­dent.

Mean­while, in Laven­tille, 47-year-old Shawn McLean was killed around 8.55 pm on Up­per Whar­ton Street as he re­turned home from buy­ing gro­ceries.

McLean was found slumped over the steer­ing wheel of his black Kia Rio, which had crashed in­to a wall. He was shot mul­ti­ple times.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered 18 spent 9mm and 12 spent 5.56mm shell cas­ings at the scene.

McLean had pre­vi­ous­ly served time for a manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion in the 2009 killing of Amer­i­ca Lev­erne Lyons, but had been re­leased ear­ly last year af­ter serv­ing part of his sen­tence.

Lyons, 30, of Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia, was lim­ing with rel­a­tives when an ar­gu­ment re­port­ed­ly broke out in­volv­ing McLean and his sis­ter.

McLean lat­er re­turned to the area armed with a firearm and shot Lyons sev­er­al times be­fore flee­ing.

The in­ci­dent was wit­nessed by an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer who fol­lowed McLean and his sis­ter as they es­caped.

Both were ar­rest­ed short­ly af­ter along Rich­mond Street, and the firearm used in the killing was re­cov­ered.

McLean was iden­ti­fied by mul­ti­ple eye­wit­ness­es and was found to have gun­shot residue on his hands.

Al­though ini­tial­ly charged with mur­der, McLean was al­lowed to plead guilty to manslaugh­ter un­der a plea agree­ment with the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP).

In To­ba­go, po­lice said 26-year-old Jerome Woods of King Street, De­laford, was found dead yes­ter­day morn­ing in­side a room, bleed­ing from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Woods was a san­i­ta­tion work­er at­tached to the Di­vi­sion of Health, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly. Po­lice said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing and a mo­tive has not been de­ter­mined.

This mur­der brings To­ba­go’s toll to ten for 2025, com­pared to 26 in 2024—most of them be­ing firearm-re­lat­ed.

The spate of shoot­ings with­in the last 24 hours has left res­i­dents in shock.