SIBLINGS CHOPPED TO DEATH

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Police have detained a 35-year-old New Grant man in connection with the brutal murders of two Mayaro siblings who were chopped to death on Wednesday night.   The bodies of the 21-year old man and his 16-year old sister, were found  at the suspect’s home with gaping chop wounds.   Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh went to the scene of the double-murder in Princes Town and then visited relatives in Mayaro on Thursday for this story.

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00:00Police have detained a 35-year-old new-grant man in connection with the brutal murders of two Mayaru

00:05siblings who were chopped to death on Wednesday night. The bodies of the 21-year-old man and his

00:1016-year-old sister were found at the suspect's home with gaping chop wounds. Reporter Cindy

00:16Raghubar-Tikasingh went to the scene of the double murder in Princess Town and then visited

00:21relatives in Mayaru today for this story. The murder of two grandchildren

00:26and today they leave us in pain. Mayaru's siblings, 16-year-old Chanel Singh and her

00:3721-year-old brother Keston Singh were inseparable. So when Keston began renting a place to work as a

00:43security guard about a year ago on Naji Avenue, New Grant, Princess Town, relatives say Chanel

00:50would often visit, staying a week or two each time just to spend time with her brother.

00:56It was while with him at the home of a man in the area on Wednesday

01:00that the pair was chopped to death, triggering outrage in the community.

01:06He's a menace to society. This is the thing he does. This is his temperament,

01:10you understand? And he had no right to kill them innocent children.

01:14According to police, the girl's body was found motionless at the side of the road around 7pm.

01:20A trail of blood led officers to the suspect's home where her brother's body lay on a couch

01:26in the porch. Both bodies bore chop wounds to the left side of the face and neck.

01:31Many of the children in the area say they saw Chanel's lifeless body.

01:36I saw my girlfriend, little son, running back trembling. I asked them what happened. My niece,

01:41she running, she cannot talk. She in shock. She only beating. She just say,

01:43what happened? What happened? None of the children can't go to school this morning.

01:46Children, I'm traumatized. Whole night messy because he running from here today. He running

01:51inside here. He running in. He running out. Neighbors called police on Thursday morning

01:55to report that the suspect hid overnight in a relative's home nearby. He has since

02:01been detained and remains in police custody tonight.

02:07At the victim's family home in Mayaro, their mother, we were told was inconsolable

02:13and has been unable to speak since getting the news. Their grandmother says she never

02:19imagined she would have to bury a grandchild, let alone two of them.

02:24When somebody do something like that, they really don't love nobody. People love nobody.

02:32People love nobody in this time. This time, nobody love nobody. And this time,

02:40because look how many murders taking place. We is not the only one losing our family.

02:47I think the Prime Minister need to address this country. People in pain, people children

02:53dying, people children crying, all kind of different thing. And you are going to address

02:57the country? You need to face your people and say something to your people.

03:05What it is going on in Trinidad, Trinidad just going helter-skelter and nobody coming

03:10to say nothing. So we not, we running this country. The murderers, the killers,

03:16them just running this country then.

03:19Cindy Raghubar-Chikasingh, TV6 News.

03:23Following a spate of murders over the last 24 hours, the TDPS says it is following multiple

03:28leads and confirms it has made one arrest, as it relates to the double murder of a brother

03:33and sister in Princestown.

03:36Persons had knowledge for about two weeks that he was intending to commit this act.

03:42Do we have any preliminary information that you could share as to the motive behind this

03:46gruesome attack?

03:47Well, at this time I cannot say that we can say exactly what is the motive. We are dealing

03:58with it based on the facts that come to us and we have the suspect in custody presently

04:04and our expert investigators are going to deal with it and they are going to make that

04:10call at the end, ma'am.

04:11The TDPS says domestic violence is on the increase, particularly in the southern division.

04:18They are going to have more and more of the community justice clinic. We are going to

04:22be going around again, working with the victim and witness support, going into these areas

04:27and helping victims to deal with the situation there.

04:33At the media briefing today, Deputy Commissioner Police Operations Junior Benjamin also called

04:38on members of the public to give whatever information they may have to the police to

04:42aid in their efforts.

04:44We want to ask the public, even at this time, if you have any information that can assist

04:50us, we would really like you to get in contact with us. Please call 555-999-800-TIPS. If

04:58you don't want to talk to us directly, we would really appreciate it. This is something

05:04that we must always understand that crime is everybody's business.

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