To­ba­go’s mur­der toll has climbed to eight for the year af­ter a 44-year-old Amer­i­can builder was found dead in Cas­tara late Wednes­day night.

Po­lice say the body of Christo­pher Brown, a Unit­ed States cit­i­zen who lived at Coun­ty Road, Sil­ver Thorne, was dis­cov­ered around 10.35 pm along De­pot Road.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of an un­re­spon­sive man and found Brown ly­ing near a flight of steps with vis­i­ble in­juries. Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Baksh lat­er viewed the body and of­fi­cial­ly pro­nounced him dead at 3.07 am on Thurs­day.

Crime Scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the lo­ca­tion overnight be­fore the body was re­moved to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal mor­tu­ary pend­ing a foren­sic post-mortem.

Po­lice have not yet re­leased fur­ther de­tails on a pos­si­ble mo­tive, whether Brown lived on the is­land or was here tem­porar­i­ly, or if any­one was seen in the area around the time of the in­ci­dent.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.