(Trinidad Express) In the midst of a major police exercise in the Laventille area yesterday morning, a man was shot dead while his two sisters suffered gunshot wounds.
The police exercise was undertaken in an effort to combat gang warfare in the crime-stricken community.
The killing took place shortly after 9 a.m., even as close to 300 members of the Regiment and the Police Service were conducting the anti-crime exercise.
And despite assistance from the Air Support Unit, which was also part of the exercise, up to yesterday evening police had not arrested the person responsible for the murder of 38-year-old Aasim Lemaitre. Officers said they were conducting the exercise when, around 9.15 a.m., they received a call informing them of a shooting at Leau Place, off Laventille Road.
Detectives said when they went to the scene, they found Lemaitre’s body slumped behind the steering wheel of his silver B13 motorcar.
Also injured in the attack were Lemaitre’s two sisters, Penika and Anisha Ray, who both live at St Barbs in Laventille. They were passengers in the car at the time of the shooting.
Penika, 17, a pupil at Tranquillity Government Secondary School, was grazed close to her left eye by one of the bullets, while Anisha, 20, was shot in the back of the head, police said.
