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Monday, February 24, 2025

Gasparillo man killed answering knock at door

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150 days ago
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The apartment where Randall John was killed at Warren Road, Gasparillo.

The apartment where Randall John was killed at Warren Road, Gasparillo.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Se­nior Re­porter

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are prob­ing the mur­der of Ran­dall John, a 30-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer from Gas­par­il­lo, who was shot dead at his home ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

John, a fa­ther of two of War­ren Road, was em­ployed as an MTS guard as­signed to the Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said John and his com­mon-law wife were in bed around 1.26 am, when they heard some­one knock­ing at the front door. John got up to see who it was and mo­ments lat­er, sev­er­al gun­shots rang out.

John’s com­mon-law wife found him on the kitchen floor bleed­ing from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds to his up­per body.

Of­fi­cers from the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed along with an am­bu­lance, but John was al­ready dead.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed John’s apart­ment, none of his rel­a­tives were present.

A friend said John had pre­vi­ous­ly worked as an es­tate po­lice con­sta­ble at Petrotrin in Guayagua­yare but lost his job in the 2018 clo­sure. The friend said John heard some­one knock­ing on the kitchen win­dow and went to check. It ap­peared the gun­man shot him through the win­dow.

Po­lice of­fi­cers be­lieved there were two as­sailants and seized CCTV footage to re­view.

The friend added that John did not seem wor­ried about any­one try­ing to harm him.

“Since I’ve known him, he had no en­e­mies. He was a re­al­ly friend­ly per­son,” the man said.

De­tec­tives from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three, are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions. How­ev­er, they are yet to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for the killing, and no ar­rests have been made.


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