Ot­to Car­ring­ton

In a new twist to the dead­ly Pen­ny­wise Su­per Cen­tre heist in La Ro­main last week, at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the par­ents of a nine-year-old boy who was grazed in the face by a bul­let while with his fam­i­ly in a car, has ini­ti­at­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion with the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA).

The par­ents re­tained at­tor­ney CJ Williams, who yes­ter­day con­firmed PCA di­rec­tor David West had start­ed a probe to de­ter­mine whether the bul­let that grazed the boy was po­lice-is­sued.

Po­lice were chas­ing a group of men who robbed and killed two se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers and wound­ed a third while the of­fi­cers were trans­port­ing cash from Pen­ny­wise’s La Ro­main cen­tre, when the in­ci­dent al­leged­ly oc­curred.

The boy’s fa­ther, Dwayne As­son, is a mem­ber of the T&T Coast Guard.

Yes­ter­day, at­tor­ney Williams said the in­ves­ti­ga­tions fol­low an al­le­ga­tion by As­son that it was a po­lice bul­let that in­jured his son dur­ing the Sep­tem­ber 19 in­ci­dent. Williams said As­son’s fam­i­ly re­quest­ed ac­count­abil­i­ty and an ex­pla­na­tion for his in­jury.

The boy, a Siparia RC School pupil, is still re­cov­er­ing from surgery at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Al­lied Se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers Jef­frey Pe­ters, 51, and Jer­ry Stu­art, 49, were killed by gun­men af­ter their ve­hi­cle was am­bushed while leav­ing Pen­ny­wise’s La Ro­main com­pound. Their col­league, Pe­o­la Bap­tiste, 57, is still crit­i­cal in the in­ten­sive care unit (ICU) at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, re­cov­er­ing af­ter surgery.

Al­lis­ter Har­ris, 47, a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer em­ployed with an­oth­er com­pa­ny, was al­so shot dur­ing the in­ci­dent and treat­ed.

Four sus­pects, Greg Dodough, Deaun­dre Mon­trose and broth­ers Kyle and Key­on Ramd­han, were shot dead by po­lice at a house in La Ro­main af­ter they were pur­sued by of­fi­cers fol­low­ing the heist.

Cur­rent­ly, four oth­er sus­pects are fac­ing gun-re­lat­ed charges af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed by po­lice dur­ing the man­hunt fol­low­ing the heist. Po­lice al­so de­tained a sol­dier whose ve­hi­cle the dead men used dur­ing their es­cape at­tempt, but lat­er re­leased him af­ter his at­tor­ney filed a habeas cor­pus pe­ti­tion.