Two men have ap­peared in court charged with mul­ti­ple counts of mur­der, aris­ing out of two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents which oc­curred in 2020 and 2022.

In the most re­cent in­ci­dent, Sha­keel James, 28, of Princes Town, was charged with the mur­ders of one-year-old No­va Shai Br­ere­ton, her moth­er, 32-year-old Sachel Ker­nell El­liot and the At­tempt­ed Mur­der of a 40-year-old man when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate In­di­ra Misir-Go­sine in the Princes Town First Mag­is­trates’ Court, on Mon­day 30th Jan­u­ary, 2023.

He al­so faced charges of Pos­ses­sion of Firearm, Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion, Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion to En­dan­ger Life and Pos­ses­sion of Firearm to En­dan­ger Life.

He is to reap­pear in court on 23rd Feb­ru­ary 2023. El­liot, her daugh­ter and a third per­son, were at her busi­ness place in the In­di­an Walk dis­trict on De­cem­ber 19th, 2022, when they were ap­proached by two men, one armed with a ri­fle.

The gun­man shot at the three vic­tims who all sus­tained in­juries.

They were rushed to hos­pi­tal where the woman and her daugh­ter died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment, while the third vic­tim was ward­ed. One sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent by of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion, on Tues­day 24th Jan­u­ary, 2023.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by Supt. (Ag.) Dhill­paul, ASP Per­sad, In­sp. Ho­sein and Sgts. Elvin and Ram­roop, all of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI), Re­gion Three. James was charged on Sat­ur­day 28th Jan­u­ary 2023 by Sgt. Ram­roop, fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Joan Hon­ore-Paul, on Fri­day 27th Jan­u­ary, 2023.

In the sec­ond mat­ter, Kevon Oliv­er, aka ‘Ay­ha’ and ‘Oliv­er’, 36, of Point Fortin, ap­peared in court on Mon­day 30th Jan­u­ary 2023, charged with the mur­ders of Ces­lyn Far­rel, Patrick Far­rell and Scyl­las Cadett and one count of Ar­son, which oc­curred on Feb­ru­ary 27th, 2020. Oliv­er was charged with the of­fences when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Ali­cia Chanka at the Point Fortin First Mag­is­trates’ Court.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to Thurs­day 02nd March, 2023. The re­mains of the three vic­tims were found at their Point Fortin home on Feb­ru­ary 27th, 2020, by Fire Of­fi­cers fol­low­ing a fire.

A man was al­leged­ly seen in the vicin­i­ty of the house with a red gas con­tain­er in his pos­ses­sion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by Supt. (Ag.) Dhill­paul, ASP Per­sad, In­sp. Ho­sein and Sgt. Forbes of the HBI Re­gion Three. One man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent on Jan­u­ary 24th, 2023.

Oliv­er was charged by WPC George, al­so of HBI Re­gion Three, on Mon­day 30th Jan­u­ary, 2023, fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Joan Hon­ore-Paul, on Fri­day 27th Jan­u­ary, 2023.