Senior Reporter
derek.achong@guardian.co.tt
Four men were killed in three shootings in east, west and central Trinidad on Saturday evening.
According to reports, the first shooting took place around 4.20 pm where Jeremiah Alexander, of Second Caledonia, Morvant, and two friends were driving in his Nissan 323 along Hosein Drive, in Diego Martin, when two masked gunmen shot at the vehicle before running away.
Alexander was shot several times and lost consciousness causing the car to crash into an abandoned house.
One of his friends was shot in his arm, while the other only sustained minor injuries in the car crash.
Alexander died at the scene, while his friends were taken for medical treatment.
Crime scene investigators recovered 27 spent 9mm shells at the scene of the shooting.
Police sources said that while they have no motive for the killing, Alexander was suspected to have engaged in gang activity.
Several hours after Alexander’s murder, homicide detectives were summoned to the scene of a shooting at La Horquetta, Arima.
Residents of Jacaranda Boulevard reported hearing a volley of gunshots around 9.45 pm.
When police officers arrived on the scene, they found a man in the passenger seat of a car with gunshot wounds to his head and chest.
The man, who died on the scene, was identified as 28-year-old Kevin “Mufu” Salazar, of San Pedro Village, Maracas/St Joseph.
Police officers noticed a trail of blood from the driver’s side of the vehicle and later learned that Salazar’s friend Chavez Snaggs, 33, of Winston Mulligan Avenue, Phase Four, La Horquetta, was taken to hospital by a resident after the shooting.
Snaggs eventually died while undergoing emergency surgery at the Arima General Hospital.
Homicide detectives believe that the duo was attacked by a pair of gunmen as 56 spent 5.56 shells and six 9mm shells were recovered by crime scene investigators near the car.
The fourth murder took place in Enterprise, Chaguanas, around 10 pm.
Residents of Boodram Lane reported hearing a volley of gunshots before finding Charles “Bolos” Dangley lying at the side of the road.
When police arrived on the scene, Dangley had already succumbed to his injuries.
The four murders raised the count for the year to 354.