THURSDAY 29TH AUGUST 2019

MURDER TOLL: 361
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 364

BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS: THERE ARE REPORTS THAT POLICE HAVE ARRESTED 6 MEN ALL FROM THE CARAPO ARIMA COMMUNITY, NEAR THE GOLDEN GROVE PRISON IN AROUCA IN AN ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL A MAN WHO WAS ABOUT TO BE RELEASED FROM PRISON CUSTODY ON BAIL EARLIER TODAY.
DETAILS OF THE INCIDENT ARE NOT CLEAR AT THE MOMENT BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT ONE OF THE MEN DETAINED IS THE BROTHER OF A WELL-KNOWN GANG LEADER WHO IS CURRENTLY IN PRISON CUSTODY FACING SEVERAL CHARGES. THE SUSPECTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING HOUSED IN DIFFERENT POLICE STATIONS WITHIN THE NORTHERN DIVISION AND WERE HELD BY A CONTINGENT OF OFFICERS FROM THE NORTHERN DIVISION INTELLIGENCE UNIT AND THE SPECIAL BRANCH.

SPOONBILL AVENUE, MALONEY: “PITCHMAN” SHOT DEAD AND KILLERS SWITCH VEHICLES ABANDONING THE ONE THEY CAME IN IN MALONEY THIS MORNING: 35-YEAR-OLD DANIEL HEERERA AKA ‘PICTHMAN’ A POPULAR CALLER AT A RADIO STATION MORNING PROGRAMME, WAS SHOT DEAD NEAR HIS MALONEY GARDENS D’ABADIE HOME AS HE SAT ON A BRICK DRINKING A CUP OF TEA BEFORE HE MADE HIS ROUTINE CALL-IN TO THE RADIO STATION ON THURSDAY AUGUST 29TH.
POLICE SAID AROUND 6:30AM, PITCHMAN, WHO WAS NOT KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, WAS SITTING NEAR A SHOP WHEN A VEHICLE DROVE ALONG THE ROADWAY. THE OCCUPANTS CAME OUT, WALKED UP TO “PITCHMAN” AND OPENED FIRE ON HIM BEFORE FLEEING THE SCENE. “PITCHMAN” WAS TAKEN TO THE ARIMA DISTRICT HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. A NISSAN B-12 MOTORCAR, WHICH POLICE BELIEVE WAS INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING, WAS LATER DISCOVERED ABANDONED ALONG THE PIARCO OLD ROAD IN MALONEY AND POLICE SUSPECT PITCHMAN’S KILLERS MAY HAVE FLED IN ANOTHER VEHICLE.

JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT & WOUNDED IN THE SAME AREA WHERE PITCHMAN WAS KILLED: 2 INJURED IN MALONEY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING: ON SATURDAY 7TH JULY 2018: JAMILLA LEWIS OF SPOONBILL TERRACE MALONEY AND AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN WERE SHOT AND CRITICALLY WOUNDED OUTSIDE LEWIS’ HOME WHEN A CAR DROVE BY AND THE OCCUPANTS OPENED FIRE ON LEWIS AND THE MAN WHO WERE SITTING IN FRONT HER HOME MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR A BOAT CRUISE THEY INTENDED TO ATTEND THE FOLLOWING DAY.

JOYCE ROAD, CARAPICHAIMA: “PIPER” GUNNED DOWN IN THE STREETS DIES AT HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT: 24-YEAR-OLD RUSSELL CHAITRAM AKA “PIPER” OF GOODWILL ROAD, ENTERPRISE CHAGUANAS, WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE AT THE CORNER OF PERSEVERANCE AND JOYCE ROADS, CARAPICHAIMA ON WEDNESDAY 28TH AUGUST. AROUND 7:39PM, POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO A REPORT OF A SHOOTING INCIDENT AND WHEN THEY GOT TO THE SCENE AT CHANDANAGORE VILLAGE, THEY OBSERVED CHAITRAM LYING ON THE ROADWAY WITH GUNSHOT INJURIES ABOUT THE BODY. CHAITRAM WAS TAKEN TO THE CHAGUANAS HEALTH FACILITY WHERE HE LATER DIED WHILE BEING TREATED FROM GUNSHOT INJURIES TO THE CHEST, BACK, GROIN, BUTTOCKS AND WRIST.
CHAITRAM WAS A VENDOR AT THE CHAGUANAS MARKET.
A TEAM OF OFFICERS FROM THE CENTRAL DIVISION AND THE REGION III HOMICIDE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS WHICH INCLUDED INSPECTOR MATURA, CPL BRIDGEMOHAN, PCS RAMNHAJAN, BICKRAM, CHARRAN, SARRAN AND WPCS BRIDGEMOHAN VISITED THE SCENE. WPC DYER-BAPTISTE IS PROBING THE INCIDENT.

CHAITRAM IS THE SECOND MARKET VENDOR TO BE GUNNED DOWN MERE DAYS APART: ON MONDAY AUGUST 26TH 50-YEAR-OLD MARKET VENDOR HEMRAJ SINANAN OF BOODOO BRANCH TRACE, DEBE, WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD IN HIS BEDROOM DURING A ROBBERY AT HIS HOME.

OLD TRAIN LINE ST MARGARET’S: A WOMAN WAS SHOT AND WOUNDED BY A MAN ENQUIRING ABOUT WHO SELLS ‘GANJA’ IN THE AREA LAST NIGHT: 27-YEAR-OLD JESSICA ALEXANDER OF OLD TRAIN LINE IN ST MARGARET’S, CLAXTON BAY WAS SHOT IN THE BUTTOCKS AND CALF NEAR HER HOME BY A MAN WHO CAME ENQUIRING ABOUT ‘WE SELLS WEED’ IN THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28TH. POLICE SAID AROUND 7:45PM, THE SUSPECT APPROACHED JESSICA, WHO WAS STANDING ON THE ROADWAY NEAR HER HOME, AND ASKED “WHO DOES SELL WEED HERE’ BEFORE FIRING SHOTS AT HER AND ESCAPING IN A WAITING VEHICLE.
WPC SEERATTAN AND PC SEELOCHAN RESPONDED TO THE SHOOTING INCIDENT AND TOOK JESSICA TO THE SAN FERNANDO GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AND WARDED IN CRITICAL CONDITION. OFFICERS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION CONDUCTED MULTIPLE SEARCHES FOR THE VEHICLE INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING.

CAMERON ROAD, PARAMIN: A POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING RESULTS IN THE SEIZURE OF GUNS, AMMO AND CAMOUFLAGE CLOTHING LAST NIGHT AS A KNOWN SUSPECT ESCAPES: WESTERN DIVISION HAVE MOUNTED A SEARCH FOR ONE OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’S MOIST WANTED FUGITIVES IDENTIFIED AS 46-YEAR-OLD RALPHIE ROPER WHO SHOT AND OFFICERS WHILE THEY PURSUED HIM AT CAMERON ROAD PARAMIN ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28TH.

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