KEVON FELMINE
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice fa­tal­ly shot a 25-year-old man yes­ter­day dur­ing a search at the home of last week’s dou­ble-mur­der vic­tims Cindy Joseph and Kadeem Eli­jah.
The man was iden­ti­fied as Nigel An­toine, 25, from Rich­plain, Diego Mar­tin.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the of­fi­cers went to the house at Hill­top Dri­ve, Spring­vale in Clax­ton Bay to ex­e­cute a search war­rant for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion.

When they ar­rived at the house around 6 am, they met An­toine at the house.

As An­toine tried to es­cape, he shoved one of the of­fi­cers and opened fire. The of­fi­cers took cov­er and re­turned, fa­tal­ly wound­ing An­toine. His firearm was re­cov­ered and of­fi­cers found a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion in the house. Po­lice said An­toine was known to them and was prob­a­bly hid­ing in the area.
Joseph, 33 and her com­mon-law hus­band, Eli­jah, 19, were shot dead at the house last Thurs­day. Joseph’s 11-year-old son was struck by a bul­let in the right leg. He is re­cov­er­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.
Po­lice said the cou­ple were asleep in their bed­room around 1.15 am when gun­men en­tered and ex­e­cut­ed them. Neigh­bours said they heard the gun­shots and saw three men run­ning from the house. 
In an­oth­er ex­er­cise, Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice ar­rest­ed a 57-year-old man for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion on Sun­day.
A re­port stat­ed that PCs Val­ley and Bram­ble re­spond­ed to a re­port of a man armed with a firearm at Nim­blette Street, En­ter­prise in Ch­agua­nas. On ar­rival, the of­fi­cers saw a man and ques­tioned him.

He then took of­fi­cers to his Nim­blette Street home, where they found a brown and chrome Smith and Wes­son re­volver with five rounds and one spent shell of .38 am­mu­ni­tion in the liv­ing room. The man was im­me­di­ate­ly ar­rest­ed.