Trinidad man wanted for ten murders killed by police

Collis “El Chapo” Britto shot and killed by police in Santa Cruz on Wednesday morning.
Collis “El Chapo” Britto shot and killed by police in Santa Cruz on Wednesday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man, who was want­ed in con­nec­tion with ten mur­ders in­clud­ing Tues­day’s dou­ble mur­der of Mar­sha Joseph, 55, and her son, Shawn, 22, was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing yesterday in San­ta Cruz.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 3 am, po­lice of­fi­cers act­ing on in­tel­li­gence re­ceived went to an area known as Span­ish Harlem, at La Canoa, where Col­lis “El Chapo” Brit­to lived.

Po­lice said while at­tempt­ing to de­tain him the of­fi­cers were shot at forc­ing them to re­turn fire.

Brit­to was tak­en to hos­pi­tal where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Po­lice said Brit­to was the main sus­pect for at least ten mur­ders in the last two years.

Be­sides Tues­day’s dou­ble mur­der that oc­curred at about 4 pm at the cor­ner of Sad­dle Road and San­ta Cruz Old Road, Brit­to, po­lice said he was the main sus­pect in the mur­der of state wit­ness Can­dy Ann Mc In­tyre, who was gunned down af­ter at­tend­ing her son’s pri­ma­ry school grad­u­a­tion in June this year.

He was al­so a sus­pect in two oth­er un­re­lat­ed killings in which sev­en peo­ple al­to­geth­er were mur­dered.

How­ev­er, a close rel­a­tive has ex­pressed shock over the in­for­ma­tion re­leased by po­lice of­fi­cers and claimed that his name is Col­lis Mc Gloure and not Brit­to and al­so, the rel­a­tive said he was nev­er known as “El Chapo.”

The rel­a­tive said Mc Gloure was asleep with his child sleep­ing on his chest when the of­fi­cers al­leged­ly broke in­to his home and sur­round­ed his bed flash­ing bright lights on his face.

The child, who is less than two years old, was al­leged­ly grabbed by the feet and hung up­side down while po­lice al­leged­ly shot Mc Gloure while still ly­ing on his bed.

An­oth­er close fe­male rel­a­tive was said to be in the room when the al­leged in­ci­dent oc­curred.

Rel­a­tives strong­ly be­lieve that there are ul­te­ri­or mo­tives for po­lice claim­ing that he was the main sus­pect in ten mur­ders in­clud­ing Tues­day’s dou­ble mur­der. They be­lieve of­fi­cers are en­gaged in a pos­si­ble “cov­er-up” in an at­tempt to pro­tect the re­al killer or killers.

Rel­a­tives al­so claimed that Mc Gloure shared a close friend­ship with the Joseph fam­i­ly as they would drop his daugh­ter to school and said he would nev­er harm the fam­i­ly.

Griev­ing rel­a­tives said when the “time is right” they will go pub­lic with this mat­ter.