The rel­a­tives of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two teenagers, killed by po­lice three years ago are tonight plan­ning a vig­il where they were killed, hop­ing to get some an­swers on the in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 

The triple killing took place on June 2, 2022. Po­lice re­port­ed that of­fi­cers were shot at and re­turned fire on the oc­cu­pants of a white Toy­ota Aqua, killing Leonar­do Williams, Fa­bi­en Richards, and Isa­iah Roberts. 

The au­top­sy for the two 17 year olds— Williams and Roberts—and 21-year-old Richards stat­ed all three were shot from be­hind, mul­ti­ple times. 

In May 2023 the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty rec­om­mend­ed that three of­fi­cers be sub­ject­ed to a coro­ner’s in­quest in re­la­tion to the deaths. 

Lead in­ves­ti­ga­tor in the mat­ter Nigel Bran­don John died last year with the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion still on­go­ing. Be­fore he died, John told Guardian Me­dia that he was await­ing the bal­lis­tic re­port from the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre to com­plete his in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 

Two weeks af­ter the killings, then act­ing po­lice com­mis­sion­er Mc Don­ald Ja­cob met with Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty Wat­son Duke dur­ing an im­promp­tu and cor­dial meet­ing. 

At the end of the meet­ing, Ja­cob said the po­lice were al­most done with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions and were ap­proach­ing the DPP lat­er that week. 

“It’s been three years and like no body tak­ing this on again” a rel­a­tive of told Guardian Me­dia. 

Rel­a­tives said with the third an­niver­sary of the killings ap­proach­ing and Bran­don John’s pass­ing, they have been left in the dark and are los­ing hope.

The vig­il is planned to reignite pub­lic in­ter­est in the deaths.

The trio who died were among six peo­ple in the car at the time.

Po­lice re­port­ed that they were pur­su­ing the car from Diego Mar­tin to Port-of-Spain when the dri­ver made an il­le­gal turn and head­ed east along In­de­pen­dence Square on the west­bound lanes. 

A sur­vivor of the shoot­ing lat­er told the me­dia that those shot and killed and oth­ers in the car sur­ren­dered but po­lice kept shoot­ing. In the end, the three were killed, two in­jured and the oth­er shot. De­spite po­lice say­ing they were shot at, to date, none of the sur­vivors were charged with any of­fences, in­clud­ing shoot­ing at po­lice and pos­ses­sion of a firearm.