(Trinidad Express) A 64-year-old shopkeeper was discovered murdered at his Morvant home yesterday.
Carlton Adams, who police said was a foreman with the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP), was shot nine times in the abdomen by unknown assailants shortly after 4 a.m., but Adams’s body was only discovered by neighbours around 7 a.m. inside a room in his Pelican Extension Road home.
The district medical officer examined Adams’s body and ordered it removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James where an autopsy is expected to be carried out tomorrow.
Police said the victim, who lived alone at the residence, was not known to be involved in criminal activities, and a motive for the incident is yet to be established.
Adams is the third person to be killed after curfew restrictions were lifted last Monday.
The first victim was Desmond Alibey, who was shot and killed during a robbery at his garage in Industry Lane, Arima, on Thursday.
A team of officers from the Morvant Police Station, including the Region II Homicide Bureau of Investigations, which included WCpl Mikaya Davis, Cpls Hezron Lync and Seecharan, and PCs Reyes and Lewis, visited the scene.
