(Trinidad Guardian) The brazenness of the country’s gangsters claimed another life just metres away from a police base on Saturday night.
Twenty-three-year-old Christian Sansavoir was shot dead a stone’s throw away from the Duncan Street Police Post.
His killing is the third in a week coming out of the ongoing gang rivalry said to be between the Sixx and Seven gangs.
Police reported that around 7.30 pm on Saturday, Sansavoir was with five others liming between building 47 and 49 Duncan Street when gunmen walked up to them and opened fire. The killers then got back into a waiting white Nissan X-trail parked opposite the Duncan Street Police Post and escaped. The SUV was later found abandoned on Clifton Street near St Paul Street.
Police recovered one rifle magazine with 28 rounds of 5.56 ammunition and 55 spent 5.56 rounds at the scene. Police have labelled the killing as gang-related although they have not identified Sansavoir as being associated with any gang.
His killing came a day after another man with no gang affiliation, Jason Alexander, was murdered near the Besson Street Police Station and Riverside Plaza which houses the Region I Homicide Bureau. Alexander was shot dead around 8 am on Friday when two men came out of a black BMW on St Paul Street near Rodney Street and opened fire. Those who were around ran with two other men being shot in the abdomen and leg.
Last week Monday, Kevon Moses, 28, was shot dead mere minutes after he left the Belmont Police Station.
Moses was detained as a suspect in a recent shooting in the Port-of-Spain Division but was released around 6 pm. As he walked out of the police station, a car drove up, a man got out and shot him. The killer returned to the car which sped off.
