In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty vis­it­ed the Courts Mega­s­tore in San Juan yes­ter­day, which was the scene where an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer opened fire on five peo­ple in the carpark.

The de­vel­op­ment came as the off-du­ty of­fi­cer, ac­cord­ing to in­ves­ti­ga­tors close to the TTPS probe, was ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned about the dead­ly in­ci­dent.

Mean­while, a moth­er of five who was shot in the may­hem re­mained un­der po­lice guard at the hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day.

A close fe­male rel­a­tive of Ker­rey-Ann Moore, said loved ones have been un­able to see or speak with her since she was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex short­ly af­ter the shoot­ing. In fact, the rel­a­tive said they were un­sure where ex­act­ly Moore was ward­ed.

Just af­ter mid­day on Sun­day, Sinanya Lessey, 35, her broth­er Sime­on, 33, his wife Ker­rey and fam­i­ly friend Nathan Pierre were shot by an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer in the carpark of Courts Mega­s­tore. The sib­lings were killed on the spot, while the oth­ers were left nurs­ing gun­shot in­juries.

Ini­tial re­ports from the TTPS stat­ed the off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer opened fire dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery. But rel­a­tives of the sib­lings al­leged Sinanya went to de­mand her mon­ey back from a man who claimed he could pro­vide her with house­hold ap­pli­ances and fur­ni­ture at a dis­count­ed price. She re­port­ed­ly hand­ed over $11,000 to the man. Sinanya had been em­ployed at the House of An­gos­tu­ra, Laven­tille, for the last ten years.

ASP Daniel Her­nan­dez is spear­head­ing the TTPS in­ves­ti­ga­tion, even as the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) and the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) con­duct si­mul­ta­ne­ous in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the PCA in­ves­ti­ga­tors vis­it­ed the scene of the shoot­ing at Courts as en­quiries got un­der­way.

The PCA has al­so ap­pealed to wit­ness­es and oth­er mem­bers of the pub­lic who can as­sist in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion to come for­ward and meet with them.

But speak­ing with re­porters at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, as she wait­ed with rel­a­tives who had come to wit­ness the au­top­sies of Sime­on and Sini­aya Lessey, the close rel­a­tive said the fam­i­ly was still pro­cess­ing the or­deal.

The rel­a­tive, speak­ing about Moore, “She good, but we nev­er re­al­ly got to speak with her.

“From what we heard, she’s do­ing all right so far. We haven’t been able to see her or drop any­thing for her.”

The rel­a­tive said the fam­i­ly did not know ex­act­ly where Moore had been shot, as both the hos­pi­tal and po­lice were tight-lipped on her con­di­tion.

The close fe­male rel­a­tive said Moore’s five chil­dren—ages 21, 18, 17, 15 and 11—were look­ing for­ward to her be­ing dis­charged from the hos­pi­tal and re­turn­ing home with them. She said while the fam­i­ly’s Christ­mas plans were over­shad­owed by the trag­ic events, rel­a­tives were hop­ing for some­thing good from the sit­u­a­tion.

The rel­a­tive as­sured, “We do­ing all right. We try­ing to hold every­thing down. We try­ing to be strong. We know she will come out, she is a strong woman.”

Mean­while, rel­a­tives of the Lessey sib­lings iden­ti­fied their bod­ies, but Guardian Me­dia was told the au­top­sies would be done to­mor­row.

Courts: All trans­ac­tions must be con­duct­ed

in our stores

Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Ltd, which owns Courts stores, has en­cour­aged all cus­tomers to “pro­tect them­selves and con­duct all their trans­ac­tions in its stores or on its web­site www.courts.com”.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, Uni­com­er al­so stat­ed it has tak­en steps to en­hance se­cu­ri­ty at the Courts Mega­s­tore carpark to fur­ther en­sure the safe­ty of its staff and cus­tomers.

Uni­com­er re­mind­ed the gen­er­al pub­lic that the “com­pa­ny on­ly en­dors­es sales or dis­count of­fers com­mu­ni­cat­ed through cred­i­ble and ver­i­fied chan­nels. Our pro­mo­tion­al of­fers are ad­ver­tised in the dai­ly news­pa­per, on ra­dio as well as on lo­cal tele­vi­sion sta­tions. Cus­tomers can al­so find our of­fers on our ver­i­fied so­cial me­dia pages, web­site or through our email newslet­ters and ver­i­fied SMS”.

It added the dead­ly in­ci­dent which oc­curred on Sun­day did not in­volve any of­fi­cial team mem­ber of Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Ltd.

Uni­com­er added, “The pub­lic is re­mind­ed, that all of­fi­cial trans­ac­tions must oc­cur in-store and an of­fi­cial re­ceipt for your pur­chase gen­er­at­ed.

“If any cus­tomer hap­pens to en­counter in­di­vid­u­als who may at­tempt to sell prod­ucts in any of our park­ing lots, they are asked to please in­form our store branch man­ag­er im­me­di­ate­ly.”