Ot­to Car­ring­ton

The week­end’s sec­ond triple mur­der was record­ed in Cunu­pia just hours af­ter three oth­er peo­ple were killed in Cara­po, Ari­ma, on Sat­ur­day evening. These lat­est killings were among five that oc­curred be­tween Sat­ur­day night and yes­ter­day dri­ving up the mur­der count for the year.

The vic­tims in the third triple mur­der for the year were 34-year-old elec­tri­cian Kir­vam Ram­jat­tan, of Din­di­al Street, Cunu­pia, Shawn Thomas, 37, of Ma­tu­ri­ta, Ari­ma, and Jevon Ince, 20, a labour­er, of Jern­ing­ham Junc­tion Road, Cunu­pia. Ram­jat­tan and Thomas died at the scene while Ince died at around 2.30 am yes­ter­day at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex.

At around 7.48 pm on Sat­ur­day, of­fi­cers from the Cunu­pia Po­lice Sta­tion got a re­port about a shoot­ing at Has­sarath Road, Cunu­pia. PCs Archibar and Mo­hammed of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force, who were on mo­bile pa­trol, went to the scene at around 8.25 pm and found Ram­jat­tan and Thomas ly­ing next to each oth­er in a yard with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds. They were told that a third vic­tim, Ince, had been tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty. Ince was lat­er trans­ferred to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex where he died ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

These killings were among 11 eleven record­ed be­tween Sat­ur­day and yes­ter­day as gun­men con­tin­ued a dead­ly ram­page in sev­er­al parts of the coun­try.

The first triple mur­der of the week­end oc­curred short­ly af­ter 3 pm on Sat­ur­day at Rose Dri­ve, Race Course Road, Cara­po, Ari­ma. Res­i­dents in the area said they did not know the vic­tims.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice, at around 3.23 pm, PCs Ro­many and Dun­can, of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force Area South, were on mo­bile pa­trol when they re­spond­ed to re­ports of a shoot­ing at Rose Dri­ve.

When they got to the scene they saw a beige Nis­san Almera car in a ditch off the road­way. There was a woman in the dri­ver’s seat of the ve­hi­cle, a man in the front pas­sen­ger seat, and an­oth­er man in a crouched po­si­tion on the floor in the back of the car. All three vic­tims, who had gun­shot in­juries on their bod­ies, were dead at the scene.

They were iden­ti­fied as Justin Paul, 24, his broth­er Cur­tis Dob­son, 32, and Guyanese na­tion­al Dru­pat­tie Shiv­nanan, 27, all of Tem­ple Street, Chanka Trace, El So­cor­ro.

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­trieved De­fence Force am­mu­ni­tion at the scene.

Joseph Paul speaks about his murdered sons Justin Paul and Curtis Dobson during an interview yesterday.

OTTO CARINGTON

Joseph Paul, fa­ther of Justin Paul and Cur­tis Dob­son, said he found out about the mur­ders of his sons from so­cial me­dia. He said he con­tact­ed the po­lice and even vis­it­ed two po­lice sta­tions be­fore get­ting in­for­ma­tion about the fa­tal shoot­ings from of­fi­cers at the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion where the Homi­cide Dvi­sion is based.

He said Shiv­nanan was in a re­la­tion­ship with his son Justin.

“They were in the wrong zone at the wrong time. That is how I will de­scribe it from what the po­lice are telling me. Once a strange ve­hi­cle comes down in that area they will get one and this is hap­pen­ing all across the coun­try,” Paul said.

He said Justin was a per­son with a big heart that was big­ger than his body and was al­ways will­ing to help and as­sist any­one. He be­lieves that the three had gone to Pey­tonville, Ari­ma, where his old­er son’s moth­er lives and that is how they end­ed up in the area where the shoot­ings took place. Paul said the two were in­sep­a­ra­ble.

There was an­oth­er mur­der yes­ter­day in San Juan. Res­i­dents of Grana­do Street off, Sawmill Av­enue, Barataria, re­port­ed hear­ing loud ex­plo­sions and lat­er found a man with gun­shot wounds ly­ing in the road­way. He was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Nkosi Lewis, of Tu­na­puna. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to that mur­der are con­tin­u­ing.

Po­lice are al­so in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Shervin Bernard who was killed at his mi­ni-mart in Ve­ga de Oropouche. Eye­wit­ness­es said the sus­pect shot Bernard and left with cig­a­rettes in a Nis­san Ti­i­da ve­hi­cle.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Bernard was nephew of for­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, Jules Bernard.

There have been 59 mur­ders in 29 days with sev­en dou­ble mur­ders and three triple mur­ders.

Two of the triple mur­ders were in the North­ern Di­vi­sion where 24 of the mur­ders for the year oc­curred.