In­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing in­struc­tions from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on whether to charge a 35-year-old sus­pect in con­nec­tion with the death of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har. 

Po­lice said the file was sub­mit­ted to the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions yes­ter­day. Of­fi­cers were await­ing in­struc­tions.

An­oth­er man, civil­ian Hakim Joseph, 44, was al­so fa­tal­ly shot. Ba­na­har, 25, and Joseph were fight­ing when the sus­pect opened fire on them at St Rose Street in Gon­za­les Vil­lage, Guapo, on No­vem­ber 6.

Ba­na­har was shot mul­ti­ple times. Ba­na­har’s col­leagues re­turned fire, dis­charg­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. Dur­ing the melee, Joseph was al­so shot. 

 Ba­na­har and oth­er of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion were on an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise and had gone to ex­e­cute a search war­rant for arms and am­mu­ni­tion at a house close to where the shoot­ing oc­curred.

The sus­pect, who po­lice said is re­lat­ed to Joseph, was ar­rest­ed hours af­ter the in­ci­dent.

Ba­na­har had five years of ser­vice and was as­signed to the Siparia CID. 

He was giv­en a mil­i­tary fu­ner­al, which was at­tend­ed by hun­dreds of peo­ple, in­clud­ing Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher and First and Sec­ond Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers of the TTPS.

The ser­vice was held at Ba­na­har’s Fyz­abad home while the cre­ma­tion was con­duct­ed at the Shore of Peace at Mos­qui­to Creek, South Oropouche. -Sascha Wil­son