RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@

guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are prob­ing the death of butch­er Faizo­ol Al­ladin, who was gunned down near the garage of his Pe­nal home.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Al­ladin, 54, of Spur Trace, Puz­zle Is­land, Pe­nal, was found around 6 am yes­ter­day. Al­ladin was found ly­ing face down in the garage area at the rear of his home.

Po­lice said Al­ladin’s home was par­tial­ly fenced, and a white met­al door on the east­ern side was open.

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the scene and re­trieved eight 9mm spent shells, three pro­jec­tiles, one frag­ment, and a black Sam­sung cell­phone be­long­ing to the de­ceased.

Po­lice said Al­ladin lived alone.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, his son Fuzeed Ho­sein said he spoke to his fa­ther at 10 pm on Sat­ur­day.

“It re­al hurt­ing be­cause on­ly last night I speak to him. I am the on­ly per­son with him right through. He was hap­py. I hear from him every day. Last night the cow made a young one and the con­ver­sa­tion was joy­ful be­cause we were look­ing for­ward to mak­ing some paynoose (a sweet del­i­ca­cy made from colostrum milk),” Fuzeed said.

He re­vealed that his fa­ther had a dis­pute re­cent­ly with a group of men who beat him and burst the glass of his van.

Fuzeed said his fa­ther was al­ways at home ex­cept for when he went to the mar­ket.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the house ap­peared in­tact, and noth­ing seemed to be miss­ing. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

The mur­der toll stood at 73 up to last night.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, a To­ba­go labour­er was killed in Arou­ca on Fri­day night.

The de­ceased was iden­ti­fied as 33-year-old An­drew Ju­nior Miller, al­so known as “Drugs,” of Arnos Vale Road, Ply­mouth, To­ba­go.

Po­lice of­fi­cers on pa­trol at 9.05 pm were in­formed of gun­shots at Ra­moutar Trace, Gar­den Vil­lage, Arou­ca.

Up­on ar­rival, they re­port­ed­ly found the vic­tim bleed­ing from wounds to the head.

The shoot­ing al­leged­ly oc­curred out­side the apart­ment which Miller had been rent­ing for the past month he had been work­ing in Trinidad.

Re­ports claimed Miller left home at 8 pm with an­oth­er per­son to pur­chase a meal and that he was shot as he ar­rived back home. A to­tal of four 9 mm spent shells were re­cov­ered at the scene.

Mean­while, a San Juan man re­mained hos­pi­talised in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day af­ter be­ing shot on Sat­ur­day.

The 36-year-old, of Quar­ry Road, San Juan, was shot on the left side of his face and about the body at 2.50 am.

A res­i­dent of Maraj Trace re­port­ed hear­ing a loud knock­ing on his front door at 3 am, and up­on check­ing, found the in­jured man in his gallery beg­ging for help.

He drove the vic­tim to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where doc­tors at­tend­ed to him be­fore ward­ing him in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Re­ports in­di­cate two armed men dressed in black were seen walk­ing through the hilly area in the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day.—With re­port­ing by An­na-Lisa Paul