RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

A man was fa­tal­ly shot out­side an apart­ment in Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, on Sat­ur­day night.

Around 8.30 pm, Den­nis Mor­gan, 58, was speak­ing with a Venezue­lan woman out­side his apart­ment on Ho­sein Dri­ve when a gun­man walked in­to the yard and shot him three times. Mor­gan died at the scene.

The woman, who was not hurt in the in­ci­dent, was re­port­ed to be shak­en and not do­ing well.

An­oth­er Venezue­lan mi­grant, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said Mor­gan had vis­it­ed ear­li­er in the evening to drop some­thing and then re­turned around 8 pm.

“I don’t know the man (Mor­gan). He is a su­per­vi­sor at a con­struc­tion site in San­gre Grande, that’s all we know be­cause my friend and she broth­er does work for the man. We don’t know where he live but this is fright­en­ing,” she said.

An­oth­er Venezue­lan man, a ten­ant of the apart­ment build­ing, said the in­ci­dent had left him and his fam­i­ly very trau­ma­tised.

“I was up­stairs and then I hear pax, pax, pax. I thought it was fire­crack­er but when I check the man, the man dead right there in the yard next to my wife’s van,” he said.

“This have every­body fright­ened be­cause we don’t know who and I don’t feel safe in Trinidad any­more and I does come home late from work al­most every night.”

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the shoot­ing are con­tin­u­ing.