A Laven­tille man was killed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with po­lice in the cap­i­tal city on Wednes­day, while two firearms were re­cov­ered fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the dead man as An­der­son “El­mo” Ro­driguez, 31, of Pic­ton Road, Laven­tille.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) were on mo­bile pa­trol along St Paul Street, East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain, around 11.30 pm, when they stopped a sil­ver Elantra with three oc­cu­pants and a gold Nis­san Ti­i­da with two oc­cu­pants.

The two ve­hi­cles ap­peared to be in a con­voy, and as of­fi­cers stopped the Elantra, the dri­ver of the Nis­san Ti­i­da re­port­ed­ly re­versed the ve­hi­cle and sped off along St Paul Street be­fore turn­ing on­to Rod­ney Street.

Po­lice said as the car turned on­to Rod­ney Street, a man on the pas­sen­ger side jumped out with what ap­peared to be a ri­fle and point­ed it at the of­fi­cers, who, fired sev­er­al shots in the di­rec­tion of that sus­pect, who ran off.

As the Ti­i­da con­tin­ued pro­ceed­ing along Rod­ney Street and then on­to Besson Street, the car came to a stop near the rear gate of the St Paul Street Mul­ti-Pur­pose Com­plex, where the dri­ver ran out of the ve­hi­cle and point­ed a gun in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers be­fore fir­ing sev­er­al shots at them.

As the of­fi­cers re­turned fire for a sec­ond time, the sus­pect man­aged to es­cape by jump­ing over a gate, dur­ing which time his firearm fell to the ground.

Po­lice claimed that as the sus­pect con­tin­ued run­ning away, he pulled out a sec­ond gun and point­ed it at the of­fi­cers, prompt­ing them to re­turn fire for a third time. The sus­pect fell to the ground af­ter this ex­change of gun­fire.

He was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

The sus­pect was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Ro­driguez.

Of­fi­cers at the scene said they re­cov­ered one re­volver and six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, as well as a pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion.

Checks re­vealed the Ti­i­da, which bore false num­ber plates, had been re­port­ed­ly tak­en from its own­er on Au­gust 27, dur­ing an in­ci­dent of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the Cen­tral po­lice dis­trict.