Two men were killed dur­ing a po­lice-led ex­er­cise in Moru­ga, on Sun­day morn­ing, in which of­fi­cers seized weapons and am­mu­ni­tion. 

Ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports, around 6:55 am on Sun­day 13th De­cem­ber 2020, a par­ty of of­fi­cers from MOPS, SIU, Task Force, and the TTDF, were on ex­er­cise du­ty in a forest­ed area ap­prox­i­mate­ly two and a half miles east of the La Re­treat Beach, Moru­ga, when they came up­on a camp.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says the par­ty of of­fi­cers ob­served two men in the camp and an­nounced their pres­ence. It was re­port­ed that the men, on see­ing the po­lice, point­ed ob­jects re­sem­bling firearms in their di­rec­tion. 

The TTPS re­ports that the of­fi­cers be­came fear­ful for their lives and in keep­ing with the use of force pol­i­cy, the MOPS team dis­charged their firearms and lat­er ob­served both men ly­ing mo­tion­less on the ground. 

The of­fi­cers found one pump ac­tion shot­gun loaded with four rounds of 12-gauge car­tridges, as well as an­oth­er 12-gauge shot­gun, along with a bag con­tain­ing 22 rounds of 12-gauge car­tridges near the de­ceased men.

With the as­sis­tance of a fish­er­man and his boat, the par­ty and the de­ceased men were ex­tract­ed to land, safe­ly.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says the men’s bod­ies were viewed by the DMO, Dr Ra­j­nar­i­nesingh, who sub­se­quent­ly or­dered them to be tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

One of the dead men was iden­ti­fied on­ly by his alias­es "Phillip" and "Crab­by", from St Mar­garet's; the oth­er was iden­ti­fied as Dion Jarvis aka "Pot" of La Ruf­fin, Moru­ga. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.