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Four persons including a nine-year-old girl were shot dead on Sunday night along the Lady Young Road in Morvant by gunmen who opened fire on the car in which they were travelling.

Mark Bassant has this report.
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00:00Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!
00:09Inconsolable. The grief too much to bear for a relative of one of four persons shot dead last night in
00:15Nova.
00:16Among the dead was little nine-year-old Jelena Armstrong.
00:20The others were identified as 23-year-old Obetei Latif, Asim Armstrong and 20-year-old Chelsea Edwards.
00:27Investigators say the group had visited Harry's Water Park in Tabakit and was returning home around 7.15pm in this
00:34Red Lancer
00:34when the vehicle pulled alongside them on Lady Young Road in Movar near the walkover and gunmen opened fire.
00:41The driver of the Lancer later lost control and crashed into another vehicle as the gunmen sped off.
00:47Investigators say all the victims were shot multiple times and said the hit was not only targeted but believed to
00:53have been gang-related.
00:54Police say they recovered over 35.56 shells and 59mm shells at the scene.
01:00President of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival Bonds Association, Mark Ion, said he was deeply hurt by the killing of
01:06nine-year-old Jelena Armstrong.
01:09In a social media post today, Ion said the nation had failed the child whom he described as bright, kind
01:15and full of life.
01:16Ion said from the moment he met her, she stood out as quote-unquote junior queen and had become like
01:21family through their shared mass camp community.
01:24Police say the suspects in a quadruple murder remain at large.
01:28Mark Bessant, TV6 News.
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