(Trinidad Express) Homicide Bureau officers were last night interviewing a 39-year-old man wanted for burning the top floor of a Trou Macaque, Laventille, apartment building on Tuesday morning, leading to the deaths of four people, including two children ages two and ten months.
Police said that around 8.30 a.m. officers of the Barataria Police Station intercepted a maxi-taxi along the Priority Bus Route at Curepe Junction.
Officers said that they received an anonymous call that the man was seen aboard a red-band maxi-taxi.
A registration number for the vehicle was also given.
The suspect was grabbed off the mini-bus and taken to the Barataria Station, where he was questioned. He was then taken to the Homicide Bureau, Port of Spain for further questioning.
In the meantime, officers of the Victim’s Support Unit of the Police Service offered counselling and support yesterday for those victims who got burnt and sustained broken limbs after some jumped off the fifth floor of the apartment to escape being burnt alive.
Retired ACP Margaret Sampson-Browne, who heads the Victim and Witness Support Unit, said two sets of her team members counselled some of those who were severely injured at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
Delicia Young remains at the Port of Spain General Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit in critical but stable condition.
Delicia lost her 15-year-old brother Akeem Young, her two-year-old daughter Denicia Campbell and her ten-month-old niece, Destiny Lara in the fire.
Akeem Young and another woman, Lisa Charles, 46, died when their heads slammed into the concrete after they jumped off the fifth floor to escape being burned.
