MURDER TOLL: 241
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 226
LATEST VICTIM: KEVON JOSEPH AKA FISH SHOT AND KILLED IN BELMONT.
VENDOR/COUNTY WORKER KILLED WHILE AT HIS STALL IN TUNAPUNA: 55-YEAR-OLD WAYNE CLARKE AKA ‘JAH-O’ & ‘FINGERS’ OF BALTHAZAR STREET IN TUNAPUNA WAS SHOT AND KILLED MERE METRES FROM HIS TUNAPUNA HOME AS HE SAT ON A CHAIR SELLING HIS PRODUCE AT THE CORNER OF BALTHAZAR AND GREEN STREETS IN TUNAPUNA AROUND 11:45AM YESTERDAY.
CLARKE, A FATHER OF ONE CHILD, WAS AMBUSHED AS HE SAT ON HIS PLASTIC CHAIR AND SHOT ONCE BEHIND THE HEAD. HE SLUMPED BACKWARD IN HIS SEAT AND DIED EVEN BEFORE THE EMERGENCY HEALTH SERIES PERSONNEL ARRIVED AT THE SCENE. CLARKE WORKED AT THE TUNAPUNA REGIONAL CORPORATION AND IS KNOWN TO BE SELLING HIS VEGETABLE PRODUCE AT THE CORNER OF GREEN AND BALTHAZAR STREETS TUNAPUNA BY MANY IN THE AREA.
A MURDER INVESTIGATION HAS NOW BEEN OPENED AS ASHDAL MC HUTCHINSON DIES AFTER BEING BEATEN & BURNT BY OROPUNE RESIDENTS: 49-YEAR-OLD ASHDAL MC HUTCHINSON AKA ‘COOLIE’ A VENDOR AT THE MACOYA WHOLESALE MARKET OF A BON AIR AROUCA MAN HAS DIED DAYS AFTER HE WAS BURNT, BEATEN, HOG TIED AND STRANGLED WITH A ROPE BY YOUNG RESIDENTS AT OROPUNE GARDENS IN PIARCO AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO LURE A 6-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
A MURDER INVESTIGATION HAS NOW BEEN LAUNCHED BY POLICE AND SEVERAL OF THOSE INVOLVED IN HIS DEATH ON THE NIGHT OF WEDNESDAY MAY 30TH HAVE ALREADY BEGAN TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES SAYING THEY WEREN’T A PART OF IT. MC HUTCHINSON SUCCUMBED TO HIS INJURIES AT THE ERIC WILLIAMS MEDICAL SCIENCES COMPLEX IN MT HOPE ON SUNDAY JUNE 3RD AND HIS RELATIVES HAVE ALREADY DONATED HIS KIDNEYS BECAUSE OF THE ‘PEOPLE’S PERSON’ HE WAS. MC HUTCHINSON SUSTAINED MASSIVE HEAD AND INTERNAL INJURIES WHEN HE LEFT A RELATIVE’S HOME WHERE HE WAS INVITED TO A LIME, TO PURCHASE A PACK OF CIGARETTES AT A NEARBY SHOP AT BETWEEN 6TH STREET AND 4TH AVENUE AT OROPUNE GARDENS. WHILE ON THE ROADWAY, MC HUTCHINSON, WHO HIS RELATIVES SAID LOVES CHILDREN AND WOULD DEFEND THEM ANY DAY, SAW A 6-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND REFERRED TO HER AS ‘COUSIN’. THE GIRL RAN HOME AND TOLD HER MOTHER WHAT MC HUTCHINSON HAS SAID TO HER AND SHE AND OTHER RESIDENTS CONFRONTED HIM FOLLOWING WHICH HE RAN INTO NEARBY BUSHES. HE WAS ‘SMOKED OUT’ AS THE BUSH WAS SET ABLAZE AND THAT’S WHEN THE BEATING STARTED WHICH RESULTED IN HIS DEATH
MISSING PENSIONER FOUND DEAD IN CHAGUARAMAS: AN AUTOPSY IS EXPECTED TO BE CONDUCTED ON THE BODY OF 73 YEAR OLD ROY NECKLES TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH. NECKLES, FROM CARENAGE WAS LAST SEEN EXITING A TAXI ON HAIG STREET ON THURSDAY 24TH MAY 2018. HIS BODY WAS FOUND ON SUNDAY IN SOME BUSHES AT HART'S CUT, CHAGUARAMAS AROUND 7AM. POLICE STATED DUE TO THE ADVANCED STATE OF DECOMPOSITION IT CANNOT BE DETERMINED IF THE ELDERLY MAN WAS MURDERED.
COPS KILL ‘ONE-POP’ IN CUNUPIA DURING CONFRONTATION LAST FRIDAY: DEVON JACOB ALSO KNOWN AS DEVON RAYMOND AND ‘ONE-POP’ WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY CENTRAL DIVISION POLICE OFFICERS JUST AFTER 6:30PM ON FRIDAY DURING AN INCIDENT WHEN POLICE WERE ON AN EXERCISE DUTY A BOODRAM STREET JERNINGHAM JUNCTION CUNUPIA. POLICE SAID WHILE IN THE AREA THEY SAW ‘ONE-POP’ ACTING IN A SUSPICIOUS MANNER AND THEY CALLED OUT TO HIM BUT HE RAN OFF AND THEY GAVE CHASE. OFFICERS ADDED THAT DURING A CHASE THE DECEASED PULLED A FIREARM AND ALLEGEDLY OPENED FIRE ON OFFICERS WHO RETURNED FIRE HITTING HIM ABOUT THE BODY. HE WAS RUSHED TO THE CHAGUANAS HEALTH FACILITY WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL. OFFICERS SAID THE RECOVERED A FIREARM FROM THE SCENE. OUTSIDE THE CHAGUANAS HEALTH FACILITY FRIENDS OF ‘ONE-POP’ SAID HE HAD BEEN RECENTLY RELEASED FROM PRISON AND WAS WORKING HARD TO KEEP HIMSELF OUT OF TROUBLE.
