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Friday, April 4, 2025

Four murdered between Friday and Saturday

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Jensen La Vende
566 days ago
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Jensen La Vende

Four men be­tween the ages 20 and 37 were mur­dered be­tween Fri­day af­ter­noon and Sat­ur­day morn­ing, tak­ing the mur­der toll to 419.

For the same pe­ri­od last year there were 423 mur­ders.

The four have been iden­ti­fied as Justin Per­reira, 20, Josi­ah James, 25, Der­ron Big­gart, 26 and Akan­ni Luke 37.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports around 4.34 pm on Fri­day, Luke, a Port Au­thor­i­ty em­ploy­ee, of Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont was killed when gun­men in a Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled along­side the Mit­subishi Lancer, where he was a back­seat pas­sen­ger and opened fire. The killers then sped off.

Luke was tak­en to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal by the dri­ver of the car who was not in­jured in the at­tack. Po­lice said a five-year-old boy who was in the car as well and was al­so not harmed. Luke was de­clared dead min­utes af­ter ar­riv­ing at hos­pi­tal.

The sec­ond mur­der took place about three hours lat­er when Big­gart, who pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed to the po­lice that his life was threat­ened, was killed. Po­lice said the Ojah Street, Or­ange Val­ley, PH taxi dri­ver was shot dead while so­lic­it­ing pas­sen­gers just out­side his Nis­san B-14 at Price Plaza Ch­agua­nas.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 7.50 pm while at the south­ern en­trance of the shop­ping com­plex, Big­gart was am­bushed and shot dead.

And on Sat­ur­day morn­ing Per­reira and James were killed in sep­a­rate in­stances in Ari­ma. Po­lice said around 12.25 am Per­reira was ap­proached by a gun­man out­side his La Re­treat Road, Ari­ma home and killed.

At 4.45 am James, of Mt Zion Road in Ari­ma, was found along the East­ern Main Road, Ma­tu­ri­ta with gun­shot wounds.

Po­lice said they re­ceived a re­port of gun­shots heard and when they re­spond­ed found James at the side of the road. He was tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal where he died while be­ing treat­ed.

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