Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A nurse was gunned down near the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty just af­ter she fin­ished work yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Sad­na Gan­goo, 44, of Princes Town, died next to her car on the side of the road.

Ini­tial re­ports stat­ed that Gan­goo fin­ished work at 4 pm and was about to en­ter her car, which was parked along Cir­cu­lar Road, when a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled up. A man got out the car, ap­proached and shot her in the head. He then re­turned to the car and the dri­ver sped away.

A male rel­a­tive at the scene told re­porters her mur­der did not come as a shock. He did not want to give any fur­ther de­tails but he claimed po­lice re­ports were made and those mat­ters are un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

She was the moth­er of one and grand­moth­er of two. She was a con­tes­tant in this year’s Miss In­dia World­wide T&T pageant.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) con­firmed the in­ci­dent hap­pened a short dis­tance away from the fa­cil­i­ty but as­sured se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures have been strength­ened.

“This in­ci­dent is cur­rent­ly re­ceiv­ing the at­ten­tion of law en­force­ment agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS). Ad­di­tion­al­ly, se­cu­ri­ty pro­to­cols have been strength­ened, while pro­fes­sion­al coun­selling sup­port ser­vices made avail­able to all em­ploy­ees,” the re­lease stat­ed.

Gan­goo’s death trig­gered an out­pour­ing of sad­ness, con­do­lences and shock over so­cial me­dia.

Po­lice were last evening still try­ing to nar­row down a mo­tive.

A par­ty of of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3, led by Se­nior Supt Sean Dhilpaul, As­sis­tant Supt Anil Ma­haraj and Sup­nt Steve Per­sad, vis­it­ed the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.