(Trinidad Guardian) The country’s murder toll now stands at 294 after four more were recorded between Thursday night and Friday night.
The victims have been identified as Antonio Dickson of Sandy Trace, St Barbs; Shiraz Ali of Boundary Road, San Juan; PH driver Ashar Kirby of Seaview in Carenage; and Nigel Bellot of Carr Lane, Belmont.
Late Friday night, one man was killed and three others injured in shooting in the La Horquetta district. No other details were immediately available.
Police also reported a woman being stabbed several times outside Express House by a man she knew. The victim was taken to hospital.
Dickson, a PH taxi driver was shot and killed just before six o’clock Friday evening.
Police say gunmen opened fire on Dixon who was seated in a vehicle. He was shot several times in the face and upper body.
Twelve hours earlier, Shiraz Ali was shot and killed in the vicinity of the Aranguez North Secondary School. He was gunned down moments after dropping his wife at the Flavorite factory on Boundary Road Extension. Ali was driving his station wagon along the roadway shortly after 6 am when a car pulled up alongside him as he moved past the Aranguez North Secondary School. A gunman sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle opened fire on Ali, hitting him in the head, neck and chest. Ali, a father of three, died in the front seat of his car.
Hours before Ali’s murder at about 10.30 pm on Thursday, PH driver Ashar Kirby was killed in the carpark of KFC in Westmoorings. Kirby was seated in a beige Nissan Almera along with Jamal “Etumbay” Samuel, waiting on Samuel’s girlfriend to purchase their meal.
The woman told police she dropped off the meals in the car and returned inside for the drinks when she heard several gunshots. She told police she saw two gunmen from a distance shooting at the car. Kirby died on the scene while Samuel was shot and wounded. Samuel was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he was treated and warded.
Just about half an hour before Kirby was killed, police said at about 10 pm Nigel Bellot was at his home at Carr Lane, Belmont, with a woman when they heard a knocking on the front door. Police said Bellot opened the door and was shot several times. He died on the scene.
Earlier on Thursday at around 1.30 pm, Wendell John, 42, was gunned down just outside the Port-of-Spain General Hospital at the corner of Charlotte Street and Belmont Circular Road.
John was originally from La Platte Village, Maraval, but moved out of the area four months ago. He was known for being comical and throwing picong and investigators believe that he may have been killed for “his mouth.”
