The sec­ond sus­pect in the po­lice-in­volved killings on Thurs­day night in To­ba­go is a Trinida­di­an. Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hil Kirk said yes­ter­day that no rel­a­tive has yet pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied the body. How­ev­er, he said re­li­able sources have con­firmed the sus­pect is from To­co.

Po­lice said Buc­coo res­i­dent Ja­mal Clarke, 24, was a pas­sen­ger in a sil­ver Toy­ota Aqua dri­ving along Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, around 7 pm, when po­lice in­ter­cept­ed the ve­hi­cle, fol­low­ing in­tel­li­gence re­ceived. As of­fi­cers ap­proached the car, they were al­leged­ly met with gun­fire.

They fired back, hit­ting both oc­cu­pants. Po­lice said one firearm was re­trieved at the scene. A po­lice of­fi­cer, who was shot dur­ing the ex­change, is in sta­ble con­di­tion.

Kirk as­sured rel­a­tives of the men killed that an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion will be con­duct­ed.

Asked to re­spond to claims by Clarke’s fa­ther, Levi Clarke, that po­lice “mur­dered” his son, Kirk said he did not have all the in­for­ma­tion and promised to pro­vide up­dates to rel­a­tives. — Stephon Nicholas