Of­fi­cers of the Cold Case Unit of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI) have charged a 32-year-old Bel­mont man with the mur­der of Mar­lon Crooks, which oc­curred in March 2015.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment from the Po­lice Ser­vice, KEON NEL­SON, of Belle Eau Road, was al­so charged with pos­ses­sion of firearm with in­tent to en­dan­ger life and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion with in­tent to en­dan­ger life, fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Roger Gas­pard SC, on Thurs­day 10 No­vem­ber 2022.

The TTPS re­lease states that Mar­lon Crooks was in the com­pa­ny of an­oth­er man in the Bel­mont dis­trict on Mon­day 2 March 2015, when they were ap­proached by a lone gun­man who fired sev­er­al shots at them. Both men were tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment, where Crooks was pro­nounced dead, while the oth­er man was treat­ed for gun­shot wounds.

Keon Nel­son was charged by Cpl (Ag.) Philips al­so of the Cold Case Unit, on Fri­day 11 No­vem­ber 2022.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was spear­head­ed at dif­fer­ent stages by W/Snr. Supt. (Ag.) But­ler, Snr. Supt. (Ag.) Singh and In­sps. Lynch and Mon­groo, all of HBI Re­gion One, while Sgt. Nar­ine of the Cold Case Unit over­saw the ex­e­cu­tion of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors ben­e­fit­ted from the in­puts of the Cold Case Con­sul­tants and the as­sis­tance of Sgt. Alexan­der and of­fi­cers at­tached to the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force.