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A Morvant man was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting on Tuesday night.
Police say the incident occurred at the corner of Mon repos and Laventille Extemsion roads, Morvant just after 10pm.
Police say the incident occurred at the corner of Mon repos and Laventille Extemsion roads, Morvant just after 10pm.
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00:00A Movar man was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting last night.
00:03Investigators say the victim was identified as Ian Charles, alias Flossie.
00:08Police say the incident occurred at the corner of Monrepoe and Laventille
00:12Extension Roads in Movar just after 10 pm.
00:15Charles was standing outside a parlour when gunmen in a vehicle drove past and
00:19opened fire, hitting him multiple times. He was shot
00:22in the face and chest and he died on the scene. Police say they will be
00:26relying on CCTV camera footage that was recently installed in the area
00:30with the hope that the shooting was captured by the cameras.
00:34Charles' death has taken the country's murder count for the year
00:37to 366 in comparison to 345 for the corresponding period last year.
00:45Police are also investigating the murder of Garnett Sidney
00:48who was also shot dead last night. Police say 29-year-old Sidney was in a shed in
00:54front of a bar the corner of Dades Trace and Taberkeet Road in Rio Claro
00:58around 10 o'clock when a man armed with a gun alighted from
01:01a green Nissan B13. Investigators say the masked gunman
01:06approached Sidney and shot him at point-blank range before escaping.
01:10Sidney died at the scene. Police officers on patrol say the green car of the
01:14shooting was found a few minutes later but it was abandoned.
01:17The search continues for the killer. In that same area another man, Carlos
01:23Modest, was shot in his head last Saturday night after meeting a man to
01:27collect money. Police are also investigating the
01:31death of a pensioner found at her Maravao home on Tuesday evening.
01:35Police say 65-year-old Anjani Lachman Isidore was found lying on her kitchen
01:40floor with what appeared to be a wound to her
01:43head. Relatives told police they had been trying to contact her for some time now
01:47and got no response. Police suspect foul play in her death
01:51but will await the results of a post-mortem
01:53to determine exactly how she died. A 27-year-old labourer at the Port of
01:59Spain Corporation was shot on Tuesday morning in El Socorro.
02:02The victim told police that he was walking with a group of friends
02:05when they heard several loud explosions. The 27-year-old
02:09then felt a burning sensation on his left calf and fell to the ground.
02:14His friends took him to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in
02:17Mount Hope where he's listed in stable condition
02:20with x-rays expected to be done to determine the seriousness of the injury.
02:24Police recovered three spent nine millimeter shells along the road and
02:27interviewed several people. They say they expect to acquire CCTV
02:30camera footage of the incident and police say the victim refused to
02:34give a statement. A 60-year-old man has to seek medical
02:39treatment after he was assaulted outside of a bar in Piti Valley.
02:42The victim who is from Maravao told police that
02:45around 12.10 a.m yesterday he was leaving a bar located along
02:50Crystal Stream Road in Piti Valley and was walking towards his Toyota
02:54Corolla which was parked nearby when he felt a sharp pain to the back of his
02:58head. He then fell to the ground and observed
03:01two men standing over him. One man was said to be armed with a
03:05length of wood. The other man then proceeded to kick the
03:0860-year-old repeatedly and demanded that he hand over his cash,
03:13cell phone as well as the keys to his vehicle.
03:16The suspects fled the scene with the victim's car proceeding east onto
03:20Crystal Stream and then right onto Moncoco Road.
03:22The police was then notified and a team of officers from the Western Division as
03:26well as the Port of Spain Task Force responded.
03:28About 15 minutes later, a team of officers led by Corporal Lashley
03:32received intelligence which led them to Codrington Street, East Rhyme River and
03:36Lavent Hill where the stolen Corolla was
03:39recovered. The vehicle was taken to the Four Roads
03:42Police Station where it was examined by crime scene investigators.
03:46One workable fingerprint was found and is expected to be used in tracing to
03:51hopefully identify one of the suspects. The 60-year-old was
03:55advised to seek medical treatment for injuries sustained during the ordeal.
04:00Corporal Gibbs is continuing inquiries.
04:05Police are once again reminding citizens to be careful when engaging in sales
04:09with people that they would only have met via social media.
04:13The latest warning comes after an Arima man was robbed at gunpoint in Lavent Hill
04:18while attempting to sell a car. Police were told that around 10.30am
04:23on Tuesday, the victim proceeded from Prisgar Lands in
04:28Lavent Hill to view a gold Nissan Almera which was advertised on TT Cars for Sale
04:34at a price of $20,000. When he reached the designated area, the
04:38victim contacted the vendor who met him. The suspect at the corner of
04:42Furness Wissy Road. The vendor entered the victim's silver
04:46Mitsubishi Lancer and directed him to Fatman Lane to examine the vehicle.
04:51However, the victim told police that upon entering Fatman Lane, four masked
04:54men walked onto the road and blocked the car. One of the men was
04:58said to be holding a gun. The men announced a hold-up and ordered
05:01the victim out of his car before they relieved him of cash,
05:04his cell phone and bank cards. They then entered the victim's vehicle and drove
05:09off. Two of the three imported vehicles which
05:13were stolen on Monday from Invaders Bay have been recovered by police. The
05:18recovery happened during an intelligence-led exercise in the Central
05:21Division yesterday. Officers went to a house at
05:24Perseverance Coover where they saw a white caravan vehicle
05:28valued at $23,963, that's US dollars, without registration plates parked on
05:37the road. The vehicle was traced to be an
05:39unregistered vehicle which had been stolen from the port.
05:43The officers then went to the corner of Perry and Cemetery Streets in Coover
05:46where they saw a blue Nissan Note e-Power valued at $15,800 US dollars
05:53with false registration plates parked on a vacant lot of land.
05:57The vehicle was traced to also having been an unregistered vehicle stolen from
06:02the port the day before. The two vehicles along with a still
06:05unaccounted for white Honda vessel valued at $28,500 US dollars
06:10were all parked on Alexander Street, also called
06:14Slipway off Anna Street Extension, near the Port Authority on Monday.
06:20They were to be collected by three importers so the caretakers of the
06:23vehicles left the keys for each of the cars in
06:27the glove compartment. Later that day this video was posted on
06:30social media platforms in which a man advertised the cars
06:34for sale. No arrests were made.
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