A high-pow­ered team of po­lice of­fi­cials led by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher, vis­it­ed the scene of last night’s dead­ly shoot­ing in Co­corite, which left Four per­sons are dead, and eight oth­ers wound­ed.

In re­sponse to the in­ci­dent, CoP Hare­wood-Christo­pher im­me­di­ate­ly sum­moned a high-pow­ered meet­ing com­pris­ing the Deputy Com­mis­sion­ers of Op­er­a­tions and In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions, the ACP Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, the Head of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, the Head of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit and heads of sev­er­al oth­er Op­er­a­tional Units.

The team cur­rent­ly is vis­it­ing the scene.

CoP Christo­pher has con­demned the lat­est act of vi­o­lence, which she de­scribed as ‘sense­less’.

She is once again as­sur­ing the pop­u­la­tion that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice will pur­sue all in­ves­tiga­tive leads with a view to bring­ing the per­pe­tra­tors of this in­ci­dent to jus­tice, in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

CoP Christo­pher and mem­bers of the Ex­ec­u­tive of the TTPS al­so have ex­tend­ed their deep­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies of those who died in last night’s in­ci­dent and wish the in­jured vic­tims a speedy re­cov­ery.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion about the in­ci­dent is asked to call the hot­lines 555 or 800-TIPS or con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion.

Re­ports are that 12 per­sons were gath­ered on the east­ern side of Build­ing F, Phase 1, Pow­der Mag­a­zine, Co­corite, around 11pm, on Sat­ur­day 4th May, 2024, when a dark coloured mo­tor ve­hi­cle ap­proached them. It is al­leged that two armed men then ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and opened fire on the group be­fore re­turn­ing to the ve­hi­cle and es­cap­ing.

The eight wound­ed vic­tims, ages 19 to 39, all of the area, were tak­en to the St. James Med­ical Cen­tre for treat­ment and then trans­ferred to an­oth­er in­sti­tu­tion.

36-year-old Jonathan Os­mond, of Co­corite died at the scene, while Shaquille Ot­t­ley, 22, and An­to­nio Jack, 57, al­so of Co­corite, were pro­nounced dead at hos­pi­tal.

Sadi­ki Ot­t­ley, 31, of Co­corite, died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment.

Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion One, is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.