Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the brazen mur­der of at­tor­ney-at-law Ran­dall War­ren Hec­tor, 43, who was fa­tal­ly shot last night af­ter leav­ing the Stan­more Av­enue Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist Church.

Po­lice say that while walk­ing to his car at the in­ter­sec­tion of Stan­more Av­enue and Al­bion Street in Port of Spain, two ve­hi­cles—a black SUV and a B15 sedan—ap­proached him, and mul­ti­ple gun­shots were heard.

Hec­tor was shot in the chest and was trans­port­ed by a church dea­con to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead.

The shoot­ing oc­curred about two hours af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood Christo­pher held a news con­fer­ence, dur­ing which she "guar­an­teed" re­sults from the State of Emer­gency.

Hec­tor was an at­tor­ney for the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency and was said to be a pros­e­cu­tor in a case against a known gang leader.

Short­ly af­ter the mur­der, a video of Hec­tor's ser­mon in church, tak­en just min­utes be­fore the shoot­ing, be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing.

He ad­dressed the State of Emer­gency di­rect­ly, say­ing that 2024 had been a bloody year but he looked for­ward to a bet­ter 2025.

"Re­gard­less of what is hap­pen­ing out there, God has pro­tect­ed us," Hec­tor said.

The con­gre­ga­tion re­act­ed in agree­ment.

"God has sus­tained us, and we are here to say, 'God, we are with you now, and forever­more,'" Hec­tor said as he end­ed his ad­dress.

His friends, fam­i­ly, and mem­bers of the pub­lic con­demned the mur­der on so­cial me­dia, many not­ing how brazen and cal­lous crim­i­nals have be­come, ly­ing in wait for a pros­e­cu­tor out­side a church.

Hec­tir’s mur­der would like­ly have been the last for 2024, which was on track to see a record high of 624 mur­ders in the coun­try.