The three men in­volved in the fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Princes Town on Fri­day have been iden­ti­fied.

The man who was shot dead in Cleghorn Vil­lage has been iden­ti­fied as 21-year-old Everitte Charles. The two oth­er men who were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the al­leged at­tempt­ed rob­bery of a liquor mart were al­so iden­ti­fied. One of them is a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice Of­fi­cer. All three men are from Bridge Road in Diego Mar­tin.

The men were treat­ed for in­juries at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter the in­ci­dent.

Ac­cord­ing to Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Richard Smith on Fri­day, po­lice re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about the planned rob­bery and a team of po­lice of­fi­cers blocked off parts of the Na­pari­ma-Ma­yaro Road in an ef­fort to in­ter­cept the ve­hi­cle.

He said the con­fronta­tion be­tween the trio and the of­fi­cers be­gan af­ter an of­fi­cer spot­ted the sus­pects’ ve­hi­cle and pur­sued it.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Smith claimed that the sus­pects fired at the po­lice first, adding that two firearms were found on the scene.

In the af­ter­math of the po­lice-in­volved killing, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher or­dered an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the killing and said, via a Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­lease, that she was await­ing fur­ther in­for­ma­tion from the team.

The CoP said she was aware of a vi­ral video that al­leged­ly showed part of the in­ci­dent.