Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

A 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man has been charged with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau met with the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC and re­ceived ad­vice to charge the man, Nicholas Ma­habir alias “Scott” with the mur­der of Venezue­lan bar­ber, Irvin Joaquin May­o­ra, 30, and four counts of shoot­ing with in­tent to com­mit griev­ous bod­i­ly harm.

The sus­pect was al­so charged with the pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, as he was not the hold­er of a Firearms User’s Li­cense (FUL).

He was ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate to face the charges.

Po­lice said May­o­ra, 30, and oth­ers were lim­ing near a bar on the cor­ner of Vi­dale Street and the West­ern Main Road, St James, on March 4, when he got in­to an ar­gu­ment with a man.

The man pulled out a Glock pis­tol and shot May­o­ra in the head and in­jured four oth­er peo­ple who were near­by, in­clud­ing a vis­it­ing US cit­i­zen.

The sus­pect was held by po­lice and the gun seized.

When con­tact­ed for com­ment yes­ter­day, one of May­o­ra’s rel­a­tives said his au­top­sy was com­plet­ed on Ash Wednes­day af­ter­noon, but said his body was still in Trinidad as the fam­i­ly was hop­ing to raise $6,000 in cash to have it re­turned to Venezuela for bur­ial.

The rel­a­tive said May­o­ra’s three chil­dren, ages four, sev­en and ten years old were still in Venezuela.

De­spite the grief, the woman said the fam­i­ly sought com­fort in God.

“There were many peo­ple that he (May­o­ra) sup­port­ed, imag­ine his chil­dren there, his moth­er over there in Venezuela and his wife here. Imag­ine what we’re go­ing through with the is­sue of rent, elec­tric­i­ty, food.

“I still give a thou­sand thanks to our God be­cause this every­thing is ac­cord­ing to his will and not ours,” said the rel­a­tive.