PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher, Thursday urged the general public to assist legislation enforcement companies within the investigations into the murders of 4 folks, together with three kids, within the Heights of Guanapo, east of right here.
“Partnering with the TTPS works, keep nameless, keep anonymous, keep unknown, however don’t keep silent,” she stated, interesting to anybody who has info that may result in the seize of the individuals “chargeable for shattering the lives of this household to return ahead.”
Police stated the killings occurred shortly after midnight when a gunman wearing hoodie entered the home and commenced capturing. They’ve given no motive for the bloodbath.
The useless have been recognized as Religion Peterkin, 10. Shane Peterkin, 17; Tiffany Peterkin, 19; Adris Crawford, 17; Christian Stephen, 18; James Mohammed, 25; Shenika Peterkin, 21; Arianna Peterkin, 14; and Jamiah Crawford, 14, have been injured.
Harewood-Christopher stated that whereas the TTPS is buoyed by the current seizure of greater than TT$100 million (One TT greenback=US$0.16 cents) price of marijuana throughout an operation within the southern a part of the island on Wednesday night time, legislation enforcement officers “don’t have any alternative however to regroup and get on the bottom to search out the perpetrator(s) of the a number of homicide which occurred early this morning in Guanapo.”
She stated that officers of the Murder Bureau, CSI, and all different related personnel have been deployed, including that “simply as somebody partnered with the TTPS, which led to an enormous drug seizure,” she is interesting to the general public to assist remedy the newest murders.
Final yr, Trinidad and Tobago registered a report 600 murders and to date this yr. Greater than 420 folks have been killed.
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