Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has not is­sued any in­struc­tions to lay charges against any­one re­gard­ing the shoot­ing of a 65-year-old Ch­agua­nas grand­moth­er Su­san Medra­no St Louis.

St Louis and her rel­a­tives had gone to pur­chase dou­bles at a Cunu­pia dou­bles stand on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, when her rel­a­tives got in an ar­gu­ment with strangers over a park­ing spot. The ar­gu­ment es­ca­lat­ed to a fight, where two of St Louis’ rel­a­tives were stabbed. One of St Louis’ rel­a­tives, who is a li­censed firearm hold­er and pris­ons of­fi­cer, pulled out his Glock pis­tol and fired three shots at his at­tack­ers, ac­ci­den­tal­ly shoot­ing and killing St Louis in the process. The wound­ed rel­a­tives were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal, where they were treat­ed for stab wounds.

Po­lice sources con­firmed homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors met with the DPP on Sun­day, who in­struct­ed them to re­lease the man who fired the fa­tal shots, pend­ing fur­ther en­quiries.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice said the peo­ple in the Nis­san Ti­i­da, who were part of the fra­cas that led to the shoot­ing, re­mained at large up to yes­ter­day.

Mean­while, Cunu­pia coun­cil­lor Richard Sukdeo said the com­mu­ni­ty was shak­en af­ter the in­ci­dent, as it was gen­er­al­ly a qui­et, peace­ful area.

Sukdeo al­so lament­ed how rows could turn vi­o­lent. He urged the pub­lic to walk away from con­fronta­tions.

“At this time... be­cause of the vi­o­lence that per­vades the so­ci­ety right now, peo­ple just need to think and pull them­selves in check in any sit­u­a­tion they feel can es­ca­late to a volatile sit­u­a­tion,” he said.