Casan­dra Thomp­son-Forbes

To­ba­go Po­lice are prob­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the is­land's fifth homi­cide for the year. The in­ci­dent oc­curred at Gru Gru Patch, Prov­i­dence Road on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Dead is Alveion Nurse aka Crime Boss, 26, of Prov­i­dence Road, Les Coteaux.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 7 am of­fi­cers from the Mo­ri­ah Po­lice Sta­tion were on pa­trol in the Gru Gru Patch, Prov­i­dence Road area, when they ob­served blood on a re­tain­ing wall along the road­way. Nurse was found dead at the base of the re­tain­ing wall with a sin­gle gun­shot wound to his face.

It is be­lieved that Nurse and his killer were sit­ting on the re­tain­ing wall when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. He was then al­leged­ly thrown over, land­ing face-up on the bank of the riv­er.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Fi­delis Okali vis­it­ed the scene and or­dered the body re­moved to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Mor­tu­ary.

While there is no mo­tive for the killing, po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that Nurse was known to them, as he had sev­er­al mat­ters pend­ing be­fore the court in­clud­ing lar­ce­ny, com­mon as­sault, rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion and one pre­vi­ous con­vic­tion for the pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na.

Rel­a­tives who pre­ferred to re­main anony­mous, ac­cused the po­lice of killing their rel­a­tive. They said one of the mat­ters was sched­uled to be heard at the courts soon.

It was in Feb­ru­ary this year that Nurse was charged for the $1.2 mil­lion jew­el­ry heist at the Low­lands Mall branch of Caribbean Jew­ellers. Al­though the court de­nied him bail when he ap­peared at that time due to his pri­or crimes, he was even­tu­al­ly grant­ed bail ap­prox­i­mate­ly tone month ago.

The To­ba­go Homi­cide Bu­reau is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.