(Trinidad Express) Two men who were asleep at their Canada Plannings Apartment at Marcano Quarry, Laventille, were shot dead by seven gunmen early on Thursday.
These two murders, together with the killing of Akeem Cummings in Belmont on Wednesday reported by the Express on Thursday, have brought the murder toll for the year to 336.
Hours after the latest killings, an emergency meeting with members of the Port of Spain CID and other response units was called at the Police Headquarters in Port of Spain by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Anti-Crime Operations) Mervyn Richardson and ACP Harold Phillip.
The meeting was held to discuss Thursday’s incident and the re-ignition of gang-related violence and killings in the Laventille and East Port of Spain communities.
Among those who attended the meeting were Snr Supt Wayne Boyd, head of the Port of Spain CID; ASP Stephen Grant and Insp Sahadeo Singh of the Besson Street CID and ASP Ajith Persad of the CID.
Richardson, the Express was reliably informed, expressed serious concern at Thursday’s meeting about the spate of killings in Laventille and mandated the officers to come up with anti-crime plans to curb the incidents.
Thursday’s, killings, police said, occurred as heavy rain pounded several parts of the country including the capital city of Port of Spain.
