Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant

A shoot­ing in­ci­dent on Queen Street, Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, re­sult­ed in the deaths of two men and left a teenage girl hos­pi­talised with gun­shot wounds.

Po­lice launched a mas­sive search for the killer, who they en­gaged briefly along East­ern Main Road with an ex­change of gun­fire. Three men were lat­er de­tained.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 2.25 pm gun­men alight­ed a white car and opened fire on a group of per­sons on Queen Street, near Dun­can Street. The gun­men then drove off.

A re­port was made to the po­lice who re­spond­ed and found three per­sons suf­fer­ing from gun­shot in­juries.

They were tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

They have been iden­ti­fied as Shaki­ra Mona, 18, who was shot in the leg and arm; Aaron “Max” Broomes was shot in the head and Kay­o­de “Toes” Don­awa was shot mul­ti­ple times. Broomes and Don­awa suc­cumbed to their in­juries at hos­pi­tal. Mona’s con­di­tion was list­ed as se­ri­ous.

Po­lice is­sued an All-Points Bul­letin and a ve­hi­cle match­ing the make and num­ber plate was spot­ted along the East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

Of­fi­cers at­tempt­ed to in­ter­cept the ve­hi­cle, but its oc­cu­pants opened fire on them. Of­fi­cers re­turned fire but the sus­pects man­aged to es­cape but po­lice lat­er held three sus­pects.

No po­lice of­fi­cer was in­jured dur­ing the ex­change.

The ve­hi­cle was sub­se­quent­ly im­pound­ed.

Re­cent shoot­ing

On De­cem­ber 31, six peo­ple were shot in Port-of-Spain when gun­men from Sea Lots went on a ram­page in the cap­i­tal city.

One of the ten—53-year-old Lystra Her­nan­dez-Pat­ter­son—died at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and three of the four gun­men were killed by po­lice with­in min­utes of the shoot­ing.

The gun­men, who were in a black Nis­san Ti­i­da, tried to es­cape but when they crashed the get­away car in the vicin­i­ty of the Cen­tral Mar­ket on the out­skirts of the city, they fled on foot, shoot­ing at po­lice of­fi­cers who were in pur­suit.

Three of the gun­men were killed.