Five men were killed in sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Port-of-Spain, San Juan and Ari­ma be­tween 8.30 pm on Mon­day and 8 am yes­ter­day.

In the first in­ci­dent around 8.30 pm on Mon­day, Av­ery Weekes was shot dead at Harpe Place, Port-of-Spain.

Po­lice said the 27-year-old, of Basilon Street, East Dry Riv­er, Laven­tille, had just got­ten out of a car and was walk­ing along Ob­ser­va­to­ry Street when a gun­man jumped out of a car which was idling near­by.

The sus­pect re­port­ed­ly be­gan shoot­ing at Weekes, who be­gan run­ning and as he fell to the ground, the gun­man stood over him and shot him sev­er­al more times.

Po­lice said a wheel-chair-bound man was al­so in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent.

The two men were tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where Weekes was pro­nounced dead.

The sec­ond vic­tim was treat­ed and re­mained in a sta­ble con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day. A third man who was re­port­ed­ly in­tox­i­cat­ed at the time of the shoot­ing and was grazed in the leg by a bul­let, re­fused med­ical treat­ment.

Weekes’ killing was said to be gang-re­lat­ed, as he is al­leged to be an af­fil­i­ate of the Ras­ta City gang.

And just around 2.30 pm yes­ter­day, a man known on­ly as De­lano was shot and killed along Ob­ser­va­to­ry Street.

The vic­tim, who was a dri­ver with the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion, re­port­ed­ly lived in Gon­za­les, Bel­mont.

Of­fi­cers be­lieve this killing was linked to Weekes’s mur­der the night be­fore.

Two Ari­ma men killed
on their way to work

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent yes­ter­day morn­ing, Swis­s­port em­ploy­ee Dar­ryl Jes­sop was gunned down as he left for work.

Po­lice said Jes­sop, 30, who re­lo­cat­ed from Tumpuna Road, Cu­mu­to, was shot dead at Mt Zion, Ma­tu­ri­ta, Ari­ma.

Of­fi­cers said he re­cent­ly moved in­to the area to stay with rel­a­tives, fol­low­ing an at­tempt on his life in De­cem­ber 2021.

A close male rel­a­tive yes­ter­day de­scribed the fa­ther of three as “se­cre­tive.”

And in a sep­a­rate shoot­ing half an hour lat­er, 57-year-old Bri­an Carter was gunned down at Hoyte Av­enue, Ari­ma.

Carter, who worked at Co­ca-Co­la, was killed as he walked out of his house to get in­to his car to head to work.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were un­clear if the two mur­ders were linked. Of­fi­cers said the on­ly con­nec­tion the two vic­tims shared was that they were both wear­ing red t-shirts at the time of the mur­ders.

HDC em­ploy­ee gunned down

An em­ploy­ee of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) was shot dead yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said Den­nis Nero, 43, of Sec­ond Street, Sad­dle Road, San Juan, was killed around 6.15 am.

Speak­ing at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, a rel­a­tive who did not want her name pub­lished said she was tired of beg­ging Nero to change his at­ti­tude.

“I don’t know, but when you don’t hear, you will feel.”