A man who was working on building booths around the Queen’s Park Savannah for Carnival was shot and killed by gunmen who blocked the path to the truck he was travelling in.
Police said Akiel Archer finished putting up a booth on a driveway near the Savannah’s Paddock across the road from TGI Fridays at around 1.20 pm.
After packing away materials Archer jumped into the tray of a brown Mazda T3500 truck, but a white pickup truck drove into the path of the vehicle blocking it.
Gunmen got out of the white pickup and chased Archer who jumped out of the tray and ran into a grassy area nearby before shooting him several times, killing him.
Officers of the Port of Spain Task Force and the CID responded to the report a d remained at the scene up to 3.20 pm gathering evidence.