An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

Quick work by the new­ly formed re­sponse unit in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion led to the ar­rest of a sus­pect who killed a fa­ther and son and in­jured two oth­ers dur­ing a stab­bing in­ci­dent in Orop­une Gar­dens, Pi­ar­co, yes­ter­day.

Of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Ma­jor Crimes Unit, led by Sgt Thomas, lat­er ar­rest­ed the sus­pect, who had been locked in an apart­ment.

The dead men were iden­ti­fied as Im­ti­az Mo­hammed, 46, and his son, Im­raz Mo­hammed, 23.

The vic­tims, along with the sus­pect, all lived at Build­ing 16, Fourth Av­enue, Orop­une Gar­dens, Pi­ar­co.

Mean­while, Im­ti­az’s 17-year-old daugh­ter and her male com­pan­ion, aged 19, of Build­ing 15, were al­so in­jured dur­ing the bloody at­tack.

Re­ports in­di­cate yes­ter­day’s in­ci­dent stemmed from a dis­agree­ment on Fri­day night be­tween the vic­tims and the sus­pect at Build­ing 16.

It was al­leged the two groups had en­gaged in a war of words, which led to the gath­er­ing break­ing up on Fri­day night.

How­ev­er, a heat­ed ex­change con­tin­ued dur­ing mid-morn­ing yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing which the sus­pect al­leged­ly armed him­self with an ice pick and stabbed Im­ti­az sev­er­al times in the back.

As res­i­dents rushed to Im­ti­az’s aid, a church­go­er vol­un­teered to take him to the hos­pi­tal and left with the in­jured man.

It is al­leged that at this point, the sus­pect then armed him­self with a nine-inch-long knife and be­gan stab­bing Im­raz about the body, in­jur­ing his sis­ter and her boyfriend, who at­tempt­ed to in­ter­vene.

As res­i­dents sought to sub­due the sus­pect, he was dragged in­to the apart­ment of an­oth­er res­i­dent at Build­ing 16 and locked in­side un­til the po­lice ar­rived.

Im­raz died at the scene, while Im­ti­az died at the hos­pi­tal.

The oth­er vic­tims were treat­ed at the hos­pi­tal for in­juries while the sus­pect was lat­er tak­en to the hos­pi­tal for med­ical at­ten­tion.