FRIDAY 12TH APRIL 219

MURDER TOLL: 136
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 150

LATEST VICTIM:
BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS: POLICE ARE AT THE SCENE AT HAMBUG TRACE IN TOCO WHERE THE BODIES OF FOUR PERSONS WERE FOUND INSIDE A VEHICLE. IT IS SUSPECTED TWO OF THE VICTIMS ARE CHILDREN WHILE TWO OTHERS ARE ADULTS AND IT MAY BE A TRIPLE MURDER/SUICIDE INCIDENT. A TEAM OF OFFICERS FROM THE REGION II HOMICIDE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS AND THE SPECIAL EVIDENTIARY UNIT OF THE HOMICIDE BUREAU ARE STILL AT THE SCENE CONDUCTING ENQUIRIES.
THE AREA WHERE THE CAR WITH THE BODIES WERE FOUND IS SAID TO BE A LONELY ROAD JUST OFF THE TOCO MAIN ROAD. THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE SOMETIME AFTER 3PM TODAY AND OFFICERS AT THE TOCO POLICE STATION WERE NOTIFIED ABOUT THE DEATHS OF THE FOUR PERSONS.

A MALONEY GANG LEADER AND 2 VENEZUELAN NATIONALS ARE AMONG 4 MEN SHOT DEAD IN A SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE IN EDINBURGH 500: FOUR MEN HAVE BEEN SHOT AND KILLED IN AN ALLEGED SHOOTOUT WITH OFFICERS OF THE PORT OF SPAIN-BASED INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE AT A HOUSE IN EDINBURGH 500 CHAGUANAS DURING THE EARLY HOURS ON FRIDAY APRIL 12TH. TWO OF THE MEN ARE FROM A GANG IN MALONEY WHILE THE OTHER TWO ARE VENEZUELAN NATIONALS.
THREE OF THE DECEASED HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS:
25 YEAR-OLD RONNIEL MIGUEL LARA A VENEZUELAN NATIONAL;
23-YEAR-OLD DEMELL HOWELL OF MALONEY BOULEVARD, MALONEY GARDENS, D’ABADIE;
RICHARD WILSON AKA RICHARD GRANGER AKA “BUN” OF BUILDING 21 MALONEY GARDENS; AND
A VENEZUELAN MAN ONLY IDENTIFIED AS “FREDDIE”
THE MEN WERE KILLED DURING A CONFRONTATION BY IATF OFFICERS WHO WENT TO EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT FOR ARMS AND AMMUNITION AFTER THEY HAD THE HOUSE AND GRANGER UNDER SURVEILLANCE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AT TORRINGTON DRIVE, ABERDEEN PARK OFF EDINBURGH BOULEVARD. POLICE SAID AROUND 3:15 AM, OFFICERS SAID THE OCCUPANTS REFUSED TO OPEN THE DOOR WHEN CALLED UPON TO DO SO AND OFFICERS FORCED THEIR WAY INSIDE.
UPON ENTERING THE HOUSE, THE MEN RAN INTO A BEDROOM AND OFFICERS FOLLOWED THEM. A SHOT WAS FIRED AT THEM BY ONE MAN AND OFFICERS FIRED BACK. POLICE SAID AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO BOARD THE BEDROOM, ONE OF THE SUSPECTS, WHO WAS BEHIND THE DOORWAY ARMED WITH A PISTOL, HELD ON TO ONE OF THE OFFICER’S SUB-MACHINE GUN AND THE OFFICER DREW HIS SIDE ARM AND SHOT THE SUSPECT.
FOUR MEN WERE LATER FOUND UNRESPONSIVE INSIDE THE BEDROOM AND WERE TAKEN TO THE CHAGUANAS HEALTH FACILITY WHERE THEY WERE DECLARED DEAD. OFFICERS SAID THEY RECOVERED TWO LOADED HANDGUNS AT THE SCENE AND SEVERAL SPENT SHELLS. NONE OF THE OFFICERS WERE INJURED DURING THE INCIDENT.
NORTHERN DIVISION POLICE BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF ON HEARING OF THE DEATHS OF 2 OF THE SUSPECTS, ONE OF THEM A GANG LEADER: “GOOD KILL”. THOSE WERE THE TWO WORDS USED BY NORTHERN DIVISION OFFICERS AFTER HEARING OF THE DEATHS OF MALONEY GANG LEADER RICHARD WILSON AKA RICHARD GRANGER AKA “BUN” AND GANG MEMBER DEMELL HOWELL. THERE ARE THREE CRIMINAL GANGS IN MALONEY WHO HAVE BEEN AT LOGGERHEADS OVER CONTRACTS TO PAINT THE APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND RAILINGS AND FOR TURF IN THE COMMUNITY.
THE GANGS ARE: THE RASTA CITY GANG; THE MUSLIM GANG; AND THE MALONEY GARDENS GANG. BUN WAS THE LEADER OF THE MALONEY GARDENS GANG, POLICE SAID AND DEMELL WAS A MEMBER. DEMELL HAD LEFT THE MUSLIM GANG AFTER HE HAD A FALL OUT WITH THE LEADER OF THAT GANG WHO IS A RELATIVE OF HIS, POLICE SAID. HE EVEN REPORTEDLY FIRED SHOTS AT THAT RELATIVE IN AN ATTEMPT TO KILL HIM.
FOR THE YEAR THERE HAVE BEEN 10 WOUNDINGS IN MALONEY GARDENS AND BUN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 7 OF THOSE INCIDENTS, POLICE SAID, BUT WITNESSES AND VICTIMS REFUSED TO COME FORWARD BECAUSE OF FEAR. BUN, NORTHERN DIVISION OFFICERS SAID, WAS ALSO A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING DEATHS OF FORMER UNDER-19 FOOTBALLER 23-YEAR-OLD MARCUS GOMEZ WHO WAS KILLED IN A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING OUTSIDE BUILDING 21 ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28TH; AND ALSO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 31-YEAR-OLD TROY RYAN MITCHELL WHO WAS ALSO KILLED IN A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING AT PARAKEET LANE MALONEY ON FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2018.

POLICE HAVE SHOT AND KILLED 17 PERSONS FOR THE YEAR THUS FAR IN SEPARATE SHOOTING INCIDENTS.

GOVERNMENT APPROVES AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL VENEZUELANS SEEING REFUGEE STATUS IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE BUT THE POLICE SERVICE IS NOT ENTIRELY HAPPY ABOUT IT: NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER STUART YOUNG ANNOUNCED THE PROCESS AT YESTERDAY’S POST-CABINET NEWS BRIEFING WHERE ALL VENEZUELAN NATIONALS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO CAN NOW REGISTER WITH THE IMMIGRATION DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTRY AND REGISTER BETWEEN MAY 31 AND JUNE 14.

MURDER AT CLUB EXCLUSIVE IN MORVANT ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON: 57-YEAR-OLD CURTIS VALENTINE SERRETTE AKA PAPA OF PARADISE HEIGHTS, MORVANT WAS SHOT DEAD AT CLUB EXCLUSIVE ALONG LADY YOUNG AVENUE, MORVANT AROUND 5 P.M. ON THURSDAY APRIL 11TH DURING A ROBBERY INCIDENT. SERRETTE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD, POLICE SAID. THE DECEASED WAS SHOT WHEN A GUNMAN ATTEMPTED TO FORCE A FEMALE EMPLOYEE INTO A ROOM DURING A ROBBERY.

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