An­na-Lisa Paul

A Mar­aval man, who was out on bail af­ter be­ing charged for at­tempt­ed mur­der and fac­ing a spate of gun-re­lat­ed crimes that oc­curred be­tween April 2020 and March 2021, was killed dur­ing a shoot-out with po­lice on Mon­day night.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Nathan Em­manuel Paul, 22, of Faustin Trace.

Paul, who was al­so known as “Plaits” and “Paulie,” was re­leased from prison in Jan­u­ary.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (WDTF) were con­duct­ing an ex­er­cise near Ton­ka Bean Trace, Mar­aval, around 10 pm when they were al­leged­ly fired up­on by Paul, who had been stay­ing in a house on the hill.

As of­fi­cers re­turned fire, Paul was hit sev­er­al times. One of the of­fi­cers on the ex­er­cise, PC Frith, was al­so shot once in the leg.

Both men were rushed to the Mar­aval Health Cen­tre, which is lo­cat­ed min­utes from where the shoot­ing took place.

Paul was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival while Frith was treat­ed and re­leased in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

Of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly re­cov­ered a firearm at the scene on Mon­day and re­turned yes­ter­day to col­lect ad­di­tion­al foren­sic ev­i­dence.

When Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed vis­it­ed the area yes­ter­day, res­i­dents re­fused to speak.

Nathan Emmanuel Paul aka Plaits

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How­ev­er, peo­ple along the main road said they knew the un­em­ployed Paul had been “liv­ing the fast life.”

Five po­lice ve­hi­cles were at the scene around 11 am yes­ter­day, along with the K9 Unit, as uni­formed per­son­nel car­ried out search­es for hid­den arms and am­mu­ni­tion in the sur­round­ing brush.

Mean­while, foren­sic of­fi­cials were seen car­ry­ing equip­ment and po­lice mark­ers up to the make-shift wood­en house where Paul was shot.

One man said, “I not sur­prised. I ex­pect­ed this kind of trou­ble from him.”

Paul was not mar­ried and did not have any chil­dren.

He was said to be the main sus­pect in a rob­bery at the KFC Mar­aval branch on April 8.

It was re­port­ed that fol­low­ing this in­ci­dent, po­lice searched Paul’s par­ents’ house and as a re­sult, he was put out be­cause of the sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ties which had neg­a­tive­ly im­pact­ed the al­ready strained re­la­tion­ship he had with his par­ents.

When Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed Paul’s fa­ther Ty­rone Paul yes­ter­day, he de­clined to speak based on ad­vice from his at­tor­ney.

Among the charges Paul had been fac­ing was pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion on June 20, 2020; at­tempt­ed mur­der; pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion and pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life on April 7, 2020.

He was al­so a sus­pect in sev­er­al in­ci­dents, in­clud­ing rob­bery with vi­o­lence at KFC, Mar­aval on April 8, 2021; rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion at Bowen Street, Mar­aval on Feb­ru­ary 27, 2021; rob­bery with vi­o­lence at the Re­tirees So­ci­ety Club, Mar­aval, on Feb­ru­ary 20, 2021; as­sault with in­tent to rob Fei Wong Chi­nese Restau­rant, Mar­aval, on March 19, 2021 and ar­son in May 2020 at Mar­aval.