Po­lice are yet to de­tain any sus­pects in con­nec­tion with three mass shoot­ings at Harpe Place, Co­corite and Gon­za­les, which claimed a to­tal of 13 lives al­to­geth­er.

A se­nior of­fi­cial of the Homi­cide Bu­reau yes­ter­day as­sured that de­spite this, “En­quiries were on­go­ing in all of the mat­ters.”

So far, po­lice have stepped up pa­trols in some of the ar­eas where the mul­ti­ple mur­ders oc­curred.

In the first mass shoot­ing at Harpe Place, Ob­ser­va­to­ry Street, Port-of-Spain on March 16 – five peo­ple were killed when gun­men drove on­to the com­pound of the hous­ing com­plex around 10 am and be­gan shoot­ing at the crowd in the open court­yard.

De­von Jack, 42; Pe­te No­ray, 49; Rudolph James, 53; Randy Graves, 32; and Sgt Lar­ry Phillip, 51 – lost their lives in that in­ci­dent.

Res­i­dents at the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) scheme have con­tin­ued to lob­by for four se­cu­ri­ty gates at the site.

On­ly last week, Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is promised the gates would be in­stalled with­in the next two months.

In the sec­ond mass shoot­ing at Pow­der Mag­a­zine, Phase 1, Co­corite, on May 4 – four peo­ple were shot dead af­ter gun­men drove on­to the com­pound of the apart­ment com­plex and in a sim­i­lar fash­ion to the Harpe Place shoot­ing, opened fire on the crowd of res­i­dents in the vicin­i­ty of the burg­er-cart where they were play­ing cards and lim­ing.

Shaquille Ot­t­ley, 22; Sadi­ki Ot­t­ley, 31; Jonathan Os­mond, 36; and An­to­nio Jack, 57 were killed in that in­ci­dent.

A se­nior of­fi­cer from the West­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day as­sured that mo­bile and foot pa­trols were con­tin­u­ing dai­ly in the com­mu­ni­ty.

He said law en­force­ment ef­forts to main­tain a vis­i­ble pres­ence in the area had been fruit­ful.

But he was wary, “It ap­pears the area is not as volatile as be­fore but we are con­scious that in a mo­ment’s no­tice, this could el­e­vate in­to some­thing vi­o­lent and volatile.”

He added, “We keep hear­ing mur­mur­ings and whis­pers on the ground as it per­tains to reprisals but there is no ev­i­dence oth­er than talk on the ground.”

Mean­while, the third mass shoot­ing at Gon­za­les, Bel­mont on June 2, claimed the lives of four men min­utes af­ter a foot­ball friend­ly end­ed.

Jay­den Reyes, 21; Pe­ter Williams, 31; Kevin King, 33; and Johnathon Ar­joon, 23 – were killed in the in­ci­dent that saw the med­ical fra­ter­ni­ty al­so fac­ing fire as gun­men fol­lowed the vic­tims to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they tar­get­ed the sur­vivors.