Pas­tor Bick­ram Singh of the Com­mu­ni­ty Bible Church says while he is still un­clear over the cir­cum­stances that led to the killing of one man by po­lice, he is con­cerned over the in­ci­dent hap­pen­ing at the Church’s fa­cil­i­ties.

Sources have con­firmed that of­fi­cers of the Po­lice An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit vis­it­ed the Church on Per­sad Av­enue, off Mon Plaisir Road, Cunu­pia, at around 5 am when the shoot­ing hap­pened.

As of 11 am, of­fi­cial de­tails on the shoot­ing were not avail­able, how­ev­er at least one man is be­lieved to have been killed.

Res­i­dents say the man, whose name they did not know, and three oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers rent­ed a room at the Church.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the Church, blood­stains were vis­i­ble on the en­trance, as glass pan­els on the door were bro­ken.

When con­tact­ed for com­ment, Pas­tor Singh said he heard of the in­ci­dent but could not pro­vide any de­tails on what led to the po­lice vis­it.

Singh con­firmed that a room was be­ing rent­ed by a woman and her fam­i­ly.

“Of course it must be un­set­tling and we as a Church we are trau­ma­tised by these events and be­cause of un­cer­tain­ty it is some­thing very un­set­tling for us, but we trust in God for in­for­ma­tion and bet­ter out­comes for fam­i­lies in our na­tion.

“I can­not say what was hap­pen­ing in the ten­an­cy, but the Church re­mains open, we have not been dis­al­lowed from us­ing the fa­cil­i­ty which is a sanc­tu­ary in a sep­a­rate part of the build­ing so we con­tin­ue and as soon as we are able to we will meet with our parish­ioners to do coun­sellings et cetera.”

Singh said the Church has en­joyed good re­la­tions with the Per­sad Av­enue com­mu­ni­ty over the years and re­ceived no com­plaints from parish­ioners or staff about safe­ty con­cerns or crime in the neigh­bour­hood.