Tobago investigators have reclassified the death of Deborah Gopaul, who was found burnt and slumped behind the wheel in her car, along the Claude Noel Highway, on March 26.
Initially, her death was unclassified.
An autopsy report on Friday, at the Scarborough General Hospital Mortuary, revealed she died from asphyxiation.
On Saturday, head of the Homicide Bureau Superintendent Rishi Singh told Guardian Media that the matter has been reclassified and is now being treated as a murder.
This has pushed Tobago’s murder count for 2024 to six.
For the same period last year, Tobago had three murders.
Last month, police charged Jamal Samuel of Signal Hill with the murder of 28-year-old Wanya Kareem Small and the wounding of another 28-year-old man.
Small was the island’s first murder victim for the year. He was shot dead on January 1 at Patience Hill. —Elizabeth Gonzales