A Ch­agua­nas man iden­ti­fied by po­lice as a sus­pect­ed ex­tor­tion­ist was killed dur­ing a “Con­trolled Pay­ment Op­er­a­tion” con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a TTPS me­dia re­lease, of­fi­cers of the unit and the Home In­va­sion Team (HIT) were con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port that a Tu­na­puna busi­ness­man was made to pay $1,800 over a three-week pe­ri­od and was be­ing told he need­ed to pay $3,000 month­ly be­gin­ning from yes­ter­day.

While await­ing the sus­pect’s ar­rival, the Tu­na­puna busi­ness­man was called and told to in­crease the amount to $3,500, which was done in prepa­ra­tion for the sting op­er­a­tion.

Po­lice said around 4.15 pm, the sus­pect, Jaden Pierre, 26 of Hi­bis­cus Dri­ve, Ed­in­burgh 500, ar­rived at the meet­ing point in a black Hyundai Tuc­son, which was parked along Basilon Street.

Af­ter col­lect­ing the mon­ey, which was in a white en­ve­lope, two An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit mem­bers ap­proached him, and af­ter iden­ti­fy­ing them­selves, he re­port­ed­ly point­ed a gun at them.

Both of­fi­cers then pulled out their guns, and both fired in his di­rec­tion. Pierre was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Cen­tre, where he was pro­nounced dead.

The en­ve­lope with the $3,500.00 was re­cov­ered.

The dri­ver of the black Tuc­son fled, de­spite of­fi­cers chas­ing it and crash­ing in­to sev­er­al oth­er ve­hi­cles, and an all-points bul­letin placed on it, man­aged to evade cap­ture.

A man and woman from As­saraph Road, Char­lieville, were lat­er ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the in­ci­dent.