Shane Su­perville

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau have re­ceived in­struc­tions from the DPP to charge a 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.

Sources con­firmed that in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived ad­vice from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to charge the 61-year-old man with the mur­der of Venezue­lan bar­ber, Irvin Joaquin May­o­ra, 30, and four counts of shoot­ing with in­tent to com­mit griev­ous bod­i­ly harm.

The sus­pect was al­so charged with the pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, as he was not the hold­er of a Firearms User's Li­cense (FUL). 

He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port of Spain mag­is­trate to­day to face the charges.

Po­lice said May­o­ra and oth­ers were lim­ing on the cor­ner of Vi­dale Street and the West­ern Main Road, St James, on March 4, when he got in­to an ar­gu­ment with the shoot­er.

The man al­leged­ly pulled out a Glock pis­tol and shot May­o­ra in his head, wound­ing four oth­er peo­ple. 

The sus­pect was held by po­lice near­by and the gun seized.