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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Woman shot dead in Wallerfield, Venezuelan shot dead

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Sascha Wilson & Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1502 days ago
20210609
Amanda West

Amanda West

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two mur­ders in East and South Trinidad, the lat­est one un­fold­ing just as the cur­few hours were about to kick in last night.

In the lat­est in­ci­dent, po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a woman in Waller­field.

Up to late last night, mem­bers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau were still at the house con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that short­ly be­fore 9 pm, the woman, iden­ti­fied as Aman­da West, was at­tacked at her home at Or­chid Dri­ve, Ja­cob Hill, Waller­field.

Dur­ing the at­tack, po­lice said she was fa­tal­ly shot.

A mo­tive is yet to be es­tab­lished for her killing.

A Crime Scene Investigator approaches the house where Amanda West (inset) was murdered in Jacob Hill, Wallerfield, last night.

A Crime Scene Investigator approaches the house where Amanda West (inset) was murdered in Jacob Hill, Wallerfield, last night.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

In the ear­li­er in­ci­dent, po­lice found the body of a Venezue­lan na­tion­al in a forest­ed area in Moru­ga with a gun­shot wound to the head.

The body was not im­me­di­ate­ly iden­ti­fied.

A po­lice re­port stat­ed that three po­lice of­fi­cers were on pa­trol around 12.30 pm when they saw about 20 Venezue­lans at a con­crete struc­ture that is cur­rent­ly un­der con­struc­tion op­po­site the La Lune Recre­ation­al Ground. When the of­fi­cers in­quired about their sta­tus, one of the men said they were beat­en and robbed in the bush­es. He ges­tic­u­lat­ed that some­one got chopped to the back of the head and could be dead.

He took the po­lice in a west­ern di­rec­tion along the La Lune coast­line and they then walked for about three miles. When it was around 1 pm, the Venezue­lan na­tion­al point­ed to a forest­ed area where he claimed the body was lo­cat­ed.

He said five masked ras­ta men with big guns robbed them.

The of­fi­cers walked about 60 feet up a hill and in track sur­round­ed by bush­es, saw the body.

There was a mar­i­jua­na tat­too be­low the left ear and the vic­tim had a spike-up hair­style. The de­ceased ap­peared to be in his mid-30s and was bare­foot­ed.

The of­fi­cers al­so saw what they be­lieved to be a gun­shot wound to the head. There were sev­er­al items of cloth­ing and food­stuff scat­tered near the body. The body was re­moved around 4.45 pm af­ter it was viewed by the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.


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