(Trinidad Express) Exactly one week after the bodies of Vonetta Haynes-Reyes and her sons Makasi and Malik were found at their La Horquetta home, a 23-year-old neighbour of the victims has been detained by police in connection with the murders.
The suspect, an unemployed welder, is the first person investigators have detain-ed following the murders.
Officers had promised that by Friday they would have arrested the suspect they had been searching for in connection with the killings. Homi-cide investigators led by ASP Kenrick Edwards and including PCs Marvin Pinder, Ameer Mohammed and WPC Rachel Huggins, were able to trace the suspect to the house where he was staying in St Augustine.
Police are confident that the man they have arrested is the person who killed Haynes-Reyes and her sons. Detectives had the at Augustine house under surveillance, and after they received confirmation that the suspect was asleep inside the residence, they moved in and took him into custody around 2.30 a.m. yesterday. The exercise was carried out with the assistance of officers from the Northern Division Task Force led by acting Sgt Pete Jerry.
A search warrant was also executed at the premises but nothing illegal or of evidential value in relation to the triple homicides was found, police said.
