Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Reporter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

The fam­i­ly of one of three men who were mur­dered in Ari­ma be­lieve he was sim­ply in the wrong place at the wrong time yes­ter­day evening.

The vic­tims were iden­ti­fied as An­drew Rose, 57, Lance Hill, 30, and 46-year-old Troy Mar­celle Cal­don.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers re­ceived a re­port of a shoot­ing near the Lala­ja Junc­tion, Blan­chisseuse Road, Ari­ma, around 4.50 pm.

Ari­ma po­lice and North­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the scene and found a bur­gundy Toy­ota Corol­la on the side of the road with three bod­ies in­side.

Of­fi­cers said Rose was slumped be­hind the dri­ver’s side seat. Hill was in the front pas­sen­ger side seat while Cal­don was found in the back seat.

The trio had gun­shots wounds about their bod­ies.

A dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer vis­it­ed the scene and de­clared the men dead.

Crime Scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors found 25 spent 9 mm shells at the scene.

The ve­hi­cle the men were found in was towed to the Spe­cial Ev­i­dence Re­cov­ery Unit (SERU) in Cu­mu­to for fur­ther analy­sis.

Guardian Me­dia ar­rived on the scene as homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors were pro­cess­ing it last night.

Rel­a­tives of the three men stood silent­ly in the dark as they wait­ed for their bod­ies to be re­moved.

Rose’s son, Aaron Mar­tinez, told Guardian Me­dia that he saw his fa­ther last week. He said his fa­ther worked as a dri­ver for Hill, who grew pro­duce.

“He wasn’t in­volved in any crim­i­nal thing. I hon­est­ly just feel it was him be­ing in the wrong place at the wrong time with maybe the wrong per­son.”