For the third time this week, a woman has been killed in cir­cum­stances that in­ves­ti­ga­tors have linked to do­mes­tic vi­o­lence. Gabriel­la Dubar­ry, 28, an in­sur­ance agent, was shot three times, al­leged­ly by a man she knew at her home on Jeb­h­ods­ingh Av­enue, Av­o­cat Vil­lage, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Re­ports are that Dubar­ry was at home with her par­ents at around 10.20 am when the sus­pect en­tered the house, walked in­to her bed­room and shot her. The moth­er of one died at the scene.

Eye­wit­ness­es said three gun­shots were heard, then a man was seen run­ning from the house in­to near­by bush­es. A sus­pect was de­tained by the po­lice a short dis­tance from the house.

Dubar­ry’s mur­der comes in the same week that Pollyann Chu­niesingh and Jezelle Phillip were killed in sus­pect­ed cas­es of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

Of­fi­cers from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion led by Snr Supt Gomez-Coop­er and Supt Ram­phal vis­it­ed the scene and yes­ter­day af­ter­noon a team from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three led by In­sp Cor­rie was gath­er­ing state­ments. They are look­ing in­to re­ports the vic­tim had made to the po­lice of do­mes­tic abuse and threats to her life.

Dubar­ry had re­cent­ly sought a pro­tec­tion or­der and the case was list­ed for hear­ing at the Siparia Mag­is­trates Court.

Dubar­ry’s rel­a­tives did not speak to the me­dia yes­ter­day but the Guardian Life em­ploy­ee was said to be re­build­ing her life af­ter leav­ing an abu­sive re­la­tion­ship and had moved back to her par­ent’s home.

Coun­cil­lor for Mon De­sir Deryck Bowrin said he was at a coun­cil meet­ing when he got a phone call about the mur­der. He said he knew Du Bar­ry’s fam­i­ly and she pre­vi­ous­ly worked at the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, so he went to the home to of­fer sup­port.

Bowrin said it was dis­turb­ing that vi­o­lence against women was be­com­ing so wide­spread and he ap­pealed for the prob­lem be ad­dressed.

“This is be­com­ing a reg­u­lar thing in this coun­try all of a sud­den and it is very dis­turb­ing. This is the sec­ond of this year and just this month alone and we’re on the ninth day. This is very dis­turb­ing and I re­al­ly want to ap­peal to the fam­i­lies to have some sort of con­trol of their be­hav­iour at this time,” he said.

On Mon­day, the first day of school be­gan trag­i­cal­ly for pupils of the Ba­by’s Pre-School who saw their prin­ci­pal be­ing bru­tal­ly stabbed in what po­lice have de­scribed as an in­ci­dent of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

Around 7.20 am on Mon­day Philip was at her pre-school lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of In­de­pen­dence Square and George Street, Port-of-Spain when she was at­tacked by a man she knew. She was stabbed sev­er­al times about the body. The man ran away but lat­er sur­ren­dered to the po­lice at the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.
Chu­niesingh, 31, was stran­gled along with her broth­er Da­mi­an, 39, and their un­cle Randy in Ari­ma ear­li­er this week. A sus­pect was ar­rest­ed on Mon­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are look­ing in­to re­ports that Chu­niesingh had re­cent­ly fled from her home af­ter be­ing beat­en by a man she knew.