RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT  

Po­lice of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two more mur­ders that took place in North Trinidad on Thurs­day along with three sep­a­rate shoot­ing in­ci­dents. 

The vic­tims have been iden­ti­fied as 31-year-old busi­ness­man Nicholas Mo­hit, of East­ern Main Road Arou­ca and 19-year-old Javon Jabari Clement ‘aka’ Shorto, of John Trace, Ben­ny Street Va­len­cia and Laven­tille Road, Laven­tille. 

In the first in­ci­dent, at about 4 pm on Thurs­day 11 March 2021, Mo­hith was seat­ed in the garage of his home when a gun­man re­port­ed­ly en­tered the yard, point­ed a gun in his di­rec­tion and opened fire. The sus­pect then ran off. 

Mo­hith’s fa­ther dis­cov­ered his son to be suf­fer­ing from a gun­shot wound to the stom­ach and took him to the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he was med­ical­ly ex­am­ined and trans­ferred to the Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal.  At about 10 pm that same day, Mo­hith suc­cumbed to his in­juries while un­der­go­ing surgery at the Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal.  

Mo­hith op­er­at­ed an Au­to air con­di­tion­ing busi­ness. A mo­tive is yet to be es­tab­lished for his killing. 

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, at about 1:15 am on Fri­day, Clement was ly­ing in his bed with his girl­friend at his home at John Trace, Ben­ny Street, Va­len­cia, when an un­known gun­man en­tered the premis­es and opened fire on him.  The as­sailant al­so threw gaso­line on Clement’s girl­friend, who man­aged to es­cape. 

Clement sub­se­quent­ly died. A mo­tive is al­so yet to be es­tab­lished. 

Mean­while...  Three sep­a­rate shoot­ing in­ci­dents are al­so en­gag­ing the po­lice's at­ten­tion. 

In Diego Mar­tin, a 37-year-old ma­chine op­er­a­tor was at his home at Quar­ry Road at about 7.30 am when he got in­to an al­ter­ca­tion with a man known to him. Dur­ing the fight, the vic­tim was stabbed mul­ti­ple times to both hands, right knee and head. He was tak­en to St James hos­pi­tal by rel­a­tives where he was treat­ed and list­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion. He was then trans­ferred to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. 

In Ch­agua­nas, a 31-year-old man of En­ter­prise Street, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, was in com­pa­ny with oth­er peo­ple stand­ing in front of a shop along En­ter­prise Street at about 9:15pm, when two men un­known to them -- dressed in dark coloured cloth­ing armed with firearms -- came out of Richard Lane, which is near­by, and start­ed shoot­ing in their di­rec­tion. 

The vic­tim, to­geth­er with the oth­er peo­ple, ran for safe­ty in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions. The vic­tim hid un­der an aban­doned house.  Short­ly af­ter, he re­al­ized that he was shot in the left side of the hip area.  

The vic­tim was tak­en by a neigh­bour to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty and was lat­er trans­ferred to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex. 

In San­gre Grande, at about 8.30 pm on Thurs­day, a 27-year-old man of North East­ern Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande, was at the cor­ner of l.A. Dri­ve and Pine Av­enue talk­ing with his friend when a green Almera pulled up on the road­way next to them. Two men wear­ing dark cloth­ing and ski masks ex­it­ed the front pas­sen­ger and back right pas­sen­ger seats, and start­ed shoot­ing in their di­rec­tion.  

Both men ran in an east­er­ly di­rec­tion along l.A. Dri­ve but were pur­sued and shot at in the process. How­ev­er, no one was in­jured. The gun­men then re­turned to the ve­hi­cle and sped off.  

The scene was vis­it­ed and processed by Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors who re­cov­ered 13 spent shells and one live round of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.