MURDER TOLL: 44
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 61
LAST VICTIM: 30-YEAR-OLD ANTON SLATER SHOT DEAD NEAR HIS TUNAPUNA HOME ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT
GUNMEN USED MORE THAN 3 DIFFERENT GUNS IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF AN INNOCENT MAN IN TUNAPUNA ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT: 30-YEAR-OLD ANTON SLATER AKA “BLOCKER” WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON THE NIGHT OF WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30THS WHILE ON THE ROADWAY OUTSIDE HIS CORNELIUS STREET FIRST TRACE TUNAPUNA HOME. SLATER WAS DRAGGING A HOSE TO FILL A BARREL OF WATER OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE WHEN SEVERAL GUNMEN CAME FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND OPENED FIRE IN HIS DIRECTION HITTING HIM APPROXIMATELY 27 TIMES ABOUT THE BODY. SLATER WAS LATER FOUND ON THE ROADWAY IN FRONT OF HIS BROTHER'S CAR. POLICE SAID SLATER WAS NOT KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES AND BELIEVE HIS KILLING WAS MEANT AS A MESSAGE FOR SOMEONE ELSE IN THE AREA.
SLATER’S COUSIN MURDERED IN THE AREA LAST YAR IN A DOUBLE MURDER:
ON SATURDAY JULY 21ST: 20-YEAR-OLD KESHAWN CARMONA AKA “TUMBAY” & 29-YEAR-OLD VICTOR WALKER, THE COUSIN OF ANTON SLATER WHO WAS MURDERED IN TUNAPUNA LAST NIGHT, WERE BOTH SHOT & KILLED AT UPPER FIRST TRACE OFF MAINGOT ROAD TUNAPUNA. A THIRD MAN WAS ALSO WOUNDED IN THAT INCIDENT.
FEMALE PENSIONER FOUND MURDERED AT HER SIPARIA HOME LATE ON WEDNESDAY: 63-YEAR-OLD ANGELA MC KENZIE WAS FOUND CHOPPED TO DEATH IN THE YARD OF HER 2 1/2 MILE MARK QUINAM ROAD SIPARIA HOME LATE ON WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30TH NEAR HER KITCHEN GARDEN. MC KENZIE HAD WOUNDS TO THE NECK AND LEFT SHOULDER. SHE WAS FOUND MURDERED BY A FRIEND WHO WENT TO CHECK ON HER JUST AFTER 5PM AND THE SIPARIA POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE.
MC KENZIE IS THE 3RD FEMALE AND 4TH PENSIONER MURDERED FOR THE YEAR THUS FAR.
PENSIONERS MURDERED:
• 62-YEAR-OLD OSWALD ALLEYNE WERE SHOT 7 KILLED IN PRINCES TOWN ON TUESDAY JANUARY 8TH.
• 67-YEAR-OLD RUPERT ELLIS DERRICK OF EASTERN MAIN ROAD LAVENTILLE WAS KILLED AND THREE OTHERS INJURED IN A DRIVE BY SHOOTING AT GEORGE STREET POS ON MONDAY JANUARY 14TH.
• 66-YEAR-OLD HENRY JOSEPH OF PHYLLIS LANE ENTERPRISE CHAGUANAS FELL AND HIT HIS HEAD AFTER HE WAS SLAPPED BY ANOTHER MAN AT A SHOP IN THE AREA DURING AN ARGUMENT ON THE NIGHT OF SUNDAY JANUARY 27TH.
POLICE CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A MAN AT EMBACADRE SAN FERNANDO ON WEDNESDAY: HOMICIDE DETECTIVES ARE AWAITING THE OUTCOME OF A POST MORTEM AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT 18-YEAR-OLD KAJAH FYFIELD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF WHILE PLAYING WITH A GUN OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT BUILDING COMPLEX AT EMBACADARE SAN FERNANDO YESTERDAY. FYFIELD WAS FOUND WITH AN APPARENT GUN SHOT INJURY JUST AFTER 5PM AT THE SIDE OF BUILDING S AFTER A LOUD EXPLOSION WAS HEARD. POLICE WERE NOTIFIED AND RESIDENTS TOLD POLICE THE VICTIM ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF WHILE PLAYING WITH A GUN. HOWEVER, RESPONDING OFFICERS DID NOT RECOVER THE ALLEGED WEAPON AT THE SCENE AND ARE THEREFORE TREATING THE INCIDENT AS A HOMICIDE UNTIL THE POST MORTEM, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BE DONE TOMORROW, REVEALS OTHERWISE. SUPT WAYNE MOHAMMED, INSPECTOR LEARIE FIGARO AND INSP SIMON OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION AND THE REGION III HOMICIDE BUREAU WERE AMONG THE OFFICERS AT THE SCENE.
CRIME WATCH HAS MADE ANOTHER MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH AS IT PASSED ON CRUCIAL INFORMATON TO THE HOMICIDE BUREAU IN RELATION TO THE MURDER AT THE QUEENS PARK SAVANNAH OVER THE WEEKEND WHICH LED TO THE ARREST OF A FELLOW SECURITY GUARD:
A SECURITY GUARD HAS BEEN DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF HIS COLLEAGUE WHO WAS FOUND PARTIALLY BURNT AT THE QUEENS PARK SAVANNAH ON SUNDAY: HOMICIDE DETECTIVES ARE HOPING TO LAY A CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A SECURITY GUARD EMPLOYED WITH SHIELD SECURITY SERVICES IN THE DEATH OF HIS COLLEAGUE 27-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW JAMES WHO WAS FOUND STABBED TO DEATH IN A VENDING BOOTH AT THE QUEENS PARK SAVANNAH ON SUNDAY JANUARY 27TH.
THE SUSPECT, WHO HAS SEVERAL TATTOOS ON HIS BODY AND THAT OF TEAR DROPS UNDER IS EYES, WAS NABBED BY OFFICERS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON JUST AS HE SHOWED UP FOR DUTY NEAR COSTATT IN PORT OF SPAIN. DURING A SEARCH, OFFICERS FOUND JAMES’ CAR KEYS IN HIS POSSESSION. HOURS EARLIER JAMES’ VEHICLE WAS FOUND PARKED AT THE SIDE OF DERE STREET, A STONE’S THROW AWAY FROM WHERE HIS BODY WAS FOUND. THE SUSPECT’S HOME WAS ALSO SEARCHED AND OFFICERS SEIZED SEVERAL ITEMS OF CLOTHING WHICH THEY BELIEVE CONTAIN VALUABLE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE.
JAMES WAS REPORTEDLY STABBED IN THE NECK WHILE IN HIS VEHICLE WHILE ON HIS WAY TO PURCHASE FOOD FOR OTHER COLLEAGUES JUST AFTER 4AM ON SUNDAY. THE KILLER DROVE HIS VEHICLE TO THE QUEEN AS PARK SAVANNAH, PLACED HIS BODY INSIDE ONE OF THE BOOTHS AND LIT IT AFIRE BUT JAMES’ ENTIRE BODY WAS NOT BURNT.
