RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

The man want­ed for ques­tion­ing by the po­lice in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing death of 15-year-old Is­abel­la Teelucks­ingh in Las Lo­mas, has sur­ren­dered to of­fi­cers and re­mained in cus­tody last night.

Po­lice said the sus­pect, along with his at­tor­ney, turned him­self in to po­lice of­fi­cers at the San Fer­nan­do Homi­cide Bu­reau around 4 pm on Tues­day.
He was re­port­ed­ly on the run since Sun­day.

Po­lice are al­so said to be re­view­ing CCTV sur­veil­lance footage which showed how the in­ci­dent un­fold­ed at Savary Road on Sun­day.

Po­lice and res­i­dents claimed Teelucks­ingh was shot when the sus­pect al­leged­ly opened fire on a group, in­clud­ing her broth­er, on the way to con­front him for re­port­ed­ly beat­ing and rob­bing an el­der­ly man in the area.

The teen, a Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary School stu­dent, died on Mon­day af­ter be­ing tak­en off life sup­port. She was shot in the head.

But yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors on the case con­tin­ued their call for eye­wit­ness­es to come for­ward.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia in a phone in­ter­view, Is­abel­la’s rel­a­tives said they were un­sure if they want­ed wit­ness­es to speak up.

When pressed as to why, a fam­i­ly mem­ber said in a hos­tile voice that the mat­ter is an on­go­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion and they are not sure what they want.

Asked if they want­ed jus­tice for Teelucks­ingh’s death, the fam­i­ly mem­ber gave no re­sponse and in­stead end­ed the phone con­ver­sa­tion.

Mean­while, the 55-year-old man who was al­leged­ly beat­en by the sus­pect said he gave a state­ment to the po­lice. He said he was con­tact­ed by the po­lice to come in­to the sta­tion.

Is­abel­la’s aunt, 20, who was shot in the pelvis dur­ing the in­ci­dent, un­der­went emer­gency surgery and re­mains hos­pi­talised.
Fu­ner­al arrange­ments for the teen are yet to be made.