Gowrie Sankar Choon, 59 yrs - Murdered (May 14th 2016)

A dispute among neighbours may have led to the killing of a 59-year-old man in Cunupia on Sunday. 
Gowrie Sankar Choon was found dead at his Persad Avenue, Mon Plasir, Cunupia home. A 28-year-old man was detained and is assisting homicide detectives in the case. 
Police said the man had convictions for malicious damage and narcotic offences. 
Choon appeared to have been beaten to death, with marks of violence on his head, face and chest, police said. 
A police report said Choon was last seen alive at around 2.45 p.m. on Saturday. 
At around 5.20 a.m. the next day, he was found dead in his home by a relative. A district medical officer pronounced him dead at the scene and his body was removed to the San Fernando mortuary. 
Responding were Sgt James, Ag Cpl Ramoutar, PCs Charles, Sarran, Gunness, Seenath, and Simon of the Central Division Task Force, Cunupia CID and Homicide Region III.

Rudy Ramkissoon, Murdered - (May 15th 2016)

Rudy Ramkissoon shot and killed in Couva yesterday.

 

THREE children lost their father yesterday after he was murdered in his Couva home. 
Rudy Ramkissoon was the 14th murder victim in four days. Ramkissoon’s wife, Annique, died giving birth to the couple’s son Raffael eight months ago. 
His body was found at around 1 p.m. in his home at Oleander Drive, Roystonia. 
He had been shot several times in the chest. - Express

Clint Phillip, 40 yrs - Murdered (May 14th 2016)

A VALENCIA man was murdered in cold blood on Saturday night after he was shot several times in the back by a lone gunman while he was talking to a friend outside his home.
The dead man has been identified as 40-year-old Clint Phillip, of Pineapple Avenue, Valencia.
His killing was one of five that took place between Saturday night and yesterday morning and has taken the country’s murder toll for the year to date to 179, according to an Express tally.
In total, 11 people were murdered over the weekend.
Around 7.15 p.m., Phillip was standing along the roadway close to his home in the company of another man when they were approached by a lone gunman. - Express

Patrice Thomas Fletcher, 26 yrs - Murdered (May 14th 2016)

IN the recent past, Chaguanas resident Patrice Thomas Fletcher received a death threat from a male relative, stating that she would be murdered on her birthday.
But even though this threat was made against her life, some of Fletcher's friends and relatives believed she did not take it as seriously as she ought to have, given that she still maintained a close relationship with the man who swore to murder her.
Yesterday morning, Fletcher was found with her throat slit in the living room of her Phyllis Lane, Enterprise, Chaguanas, home. But yesterday was not her birthday, it was on Saturday.
Just hours before she was found murdered, Fletcher was out with friends celebrating her 26th birthday.
Around 5 o'clock yesterday morning, and after the celebrations, a friend dropped her off at her home, only for her to be found dead later in the day - Express

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Kevon Austin, 34 yrs - Murdered (May 7th 2017)

Police are continuing their investigations into the death of 34-year-old Kevon Austin, who was shot dead in Tacarigua on Saturday night.
Austin was in a party a short distance from his home, near Alexander Street, Tacarigua, when he got into a confrontation with a group of men while leaving the party. 
During the confrontation, one of the men pulled out a firearm and shot Austin several times about the body.
He died on the scene. 
Officers of the Northern Division yesterday received key information and were said to be conducting exercises with the intent of arresting a group of suspects. However, up to press time, no arrest had been made. 
Speaking to the media yesterday, at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, Austin’s relatives said they were shocked by the incident.
They noted the family was expected to hold a Mother’s Day lime at their Tacarigua home, but they were forced instead to conduct a wake. 
It was noted Austin “was not perfect”, noting he had a chequered past, but they said he did not deserve to be killed in such a manner.

Nerissa Goora, 24 yrs - Murdered (May 4th 2016)

Nerissa Goora top right and sister

Police have launched a manhunt for a second suspect in the attempted rape and murder of a 24-year-old Eastern Regional Health Authority employee yesterday.

Nerissa Nickey Goora, 24, a clerk at Sangre Grande Health Centre at River Road, died at hospital after she was stabbed by one of two men who attacked her as she was walking to her Tamana Hill home on Wednesday evening.

Relatives said she gave a description of at least one of the suspects before she was taken away to hospital and police used this description to detain a man yesterday. 

The detained man was assisting police in apprehending the second suspect up to last night.

Goora died of a stab wound she received just above her navel while undergoing emergency surgery at the Sangre Grande Hospital.

Selwyn John - Murdered (May 2nd 2017)

Seventeen-year-old Amy Babwah grabbed her sleeping baby and hid behind a wardrobe as gunmen pumped multiple bullets into her husband’s body after storming their Marabella home on Monday night.

The teenage mom and her seven-month-old baby girl escaped injury but her 35-year-old husband, Selwyn John, died in the living room of their Bayshore home. 

John was killed one day after his neighbour, Dixon Richards, 22, who lived a few houses away from him, was shot dead in front his home. 

Richards was found by his mother bleeding from gunshot wounds at their doorsteps on Sunday. 

The murders have left residents, who believe the two shootings could be linked to a turf war, fearful for their lives.

Police reports said two gunmen accosted John shortly after 11 pm. 

John’s father, Kelvin Ramcharan, 57, who lives close by said he heard about 12 shots. 

In an interview yesterday, Ramcharan said: “He (John) now bath and gone inside. He hear the door kick and he come out the bedroom and they offload shots in he. 

“I hear it was three men. I now done bathe and change meh clothes and I sit down eating. I hear about 12 shots. I came outside and I see his wife running coming. She was crying and bawling.”

She left the baby inside the house and came for help, he added.

When he got to the house, Ramcharan said he saw John lying on his stomach. “They did not ask him nothing they just buss it on him,” said Ramcharan. 

Babwah grabbed the baby who was asleep on the bed just five feet away from the living room. “The mother tell me when he (John) come out and she hear the gunshot she gone behind the wardrobe with the baby,” said the father.

Babwah’s two-year-old son who also lives with them was by his grandmother at the time of the shooting. Ramcharan did not know Babwah’s whereabouts since she left with the police after the shooting.

John also has two other children—a nine-year-old boy and eight-year-old girl —from a previous relationship.

Admitting his son had a criminal past and previously sold drugs, Ramcharan said he did not know whether he was still involved in illegal activities. 

Ramcharan did not share a close relationship with his son but he said he did not deserve the way he met his death.

He said John was also charged for being involved with Babwah because she was a minor. In November 2014 John claimed he was kidnapped and taken to Venezuela when he appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court for missing his court date, burning Babwah’s clothes and assaulting three police officers. 

Concerned about the crime situation, Ramcharan asked: “A killing Sunday and Monday. Who next? What next?

Also expressing his concern, another resident said: “We believe is the same people who do the shooting Sunday do this. Somebody wants to control the scene. The man (John) was just trying to survive.”

John’s sister-in-law, Shadah John, called for frequent police patrols in the area. 

She claimed the police only patrol one area of the community. An autopsy said John was shot seven times. San Fernando police are investigating. 

Karin Grant - Murdered (May 2nd 2017)

A 19-year-old cashier was shot dead on Monday night as gunmen opened fire on two men killing her as she went to throw garbage outside her home in San Juan. 

According to police, around 9 pm police were alerted to gunshots on Bagatelle Road, San Juan. When they arrived they found Karin Grant dead along with a man who remained unidentified up to late yesterday.

A third man was shot in the leg and is warded in a stable condition at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. 

Police believe one or both men were the gunmen’s target and suspect the shooting may be in retaliation to a shooting in Laventille Road last week. 

Police said the unidentified dead man was sitting on a staircase peeling oranges when he was ambushed.

While the gunmen pounced on him, Grant was walking nearby and was shot. The second man escaped as the gunmen, with an automatic weapon, opened fire indiscriminately. 

Speaking with the media yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, Grant’s older brother, Kimroy, said Grant’s mother, who is hospitalised for a heart condition, had to be sedated after hearing her daughter was killed.

“She used to like to be in all the activities... camping, hiking and those kind of things. She liked to do sports and thing. She was never in gang or anything.

“She was a person who was always home,” Kimroy said, adding his sister worked at as a cashier at a company in the Fernandes Compound, Laventille. 

The dead woman studied to become a mason with the Multi-Sector Skills Training Programme.

Kimroy added his family had constantly asked their landlord to secure the property as the area was open, causing men of ill-repute to assemble there as it was a great vantage point. 

He said: “The thing is we renting up there and the landlord has a no trespassing sign but we can't tell them that and they don't take that on. Them men have sure firepower. 

“We talked to the landlord because people get rob, tenants get order to move out because a man put up security cameras and they shoot up the place. 

“This girl was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Normally she would just come out on the step and talk to her friends and then go back inside. 

“She's not no bad person,” Kimroy said, adding that his sister, the youngest of four children and only girl, was a “normal teenager” who just started to live her life. 

“I only scrubbing blood whole day off the wall. Some of it not even her own. She used to take care of my six-year-old nephew and he keeps telling me last night that Karin dead.

“I don’t even know if he knows what that means. He used to be with her all the time, when she go and sleep, he does go to. She used to take care of him like a mother,” Kimroy said. 

The carpenter added now his cries for safety measures to be put in place have fallen on deaf ears by the landlord and his sister being killed at her home, his only option now was to move out. 

“Moving out is an option, knowing the area always hot. I working across the road from my home but this not making sense. No one want to live in the area or go in that room (where Karin slept),” he added. - www.guardian.co.tt