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Bloody weekend in Trinidad
CMC
Posted: 7/13/2009 11:20:12 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 52-year-old mother, who four years ago had witnessed her daughter’s murder.
Police said that the gunman, pretending to be a customer, had entered the mini-market operated by Judy Badrie in Petit Valley, west of here yesterday and shot her in the head.
Badrie was supposed to have testified against the man who is accused of killing her daughter Melissa on July 3, 2005. In that incident, another one of her daughters Sue Mara, lost her left leg while another jumped into a nearby river to escape.
Police are also searching for the killers of two men in the volatile Belmont area in what they believe were reprisal killings of gang leader Ricardo 'Docs' McCarthy, the main suspect in the murder of 10-year-old school girl Tecia Henry.
Henry’s killing had led to an outrage within the country, particularly after a post mortem revealed that she had been strangled and her body dumped under a house in the Laventille area.
> Police said that Joel Phillips 35, and his uncle Devannan Rajcoomar 51, were killed late Saturday night.
Lawmen are also investigating the murders of 26-year-old Kyode Peters, who was shot dead in Laventille, along the east-west corridor on Friday night and 62-year-old pensioner, Rudolph Contrero, whose partially burnt body was found in a car in Rio Claro, south of here on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people participated in an anti-crime rally at Skinner Park in San Fernando, south of here yesterday, with organisers warning that the country had a murder rate per capita of 31 per 100,000 people.
They said Trinidad and Tobago had the same murder rate as Somalia, an African country with no recognised government, which has experienced scores of military coups.
<span style="font-weight: bold">More than 290 people have been murdered here so far this year.</span>
CMC
Posted: 7/13/2009 11:20:12 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 52-year-old mother, who four years ago had witnessed her daughter’s murder.
Police said that the gunman, pretending to be a customer, had entered the mini-market operated by Judy Badrie in Petit Valley, west of here yesterday and shot her in the head.
Badrie was supposed to have testified against the man who is accused of killing her daughter Melissa on July 3, 2005. In that incident, another one of her daughters Sue Mara, lost her left leg while another jumped into a nearby river to escape.
Police are also searching for the killers of two men in the volatile Belmont area in what they believe were reprisal killings of gang leader Ricardo 'Docs' McCarthy, the main suspect in the murder of 10-year-old school girl Tecia Henry.
Henry’s killing had led to an outrage within the country, particularly after a post mortem revealed that she had been strangled and her body dumped under a house in the Laventille area.
> Police said that Joel Phillips 35, and his uncle Devannan Rajcoomar 51, were killed late Saturday night.
Lawmen are also investigating the murders of 26-year-old Kyode Peters, who was shot dead in Laventille, along the east-west corridor on Friday night and 62-year-old pensioner, Rudolph Contrero, whose partially burnt body was found in a car in Rio Claro, south of here on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people participated in an anti-crime rally at Skinner Park in San Fernando, south of here yesterday, with organisers warning that the country had a murder rate per capita of 31 per 100,000 people.
They said Trinidad and Tobago had the same murder rate as Somalia, an African country with no recognised government, which has experienced scores of military coups.
<span style="font-weight: bold">More than 290 people have been murdered here so far this year.</span>
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