(Trinidad Express) A MORVANT couple were shot dead as they slept in their bed early Tuesday morning but by 1 p.m. that same day, the men suspected of killing them were themselves shot dead when they were confronted by the police.
The first incident occurred around 2.30 a.m.The couple, Marlon Raymond, 22, and his girlfriend, Cherisse Charles, 20, were asleep yesterday morning at Raymond’s apartment located along Lady Young Avenue, Morvant when at 2.30 a.m. two men pounded down their door, walked into their bedroom and opened fire.
A relative of Raymond was asleep in her own apartment at the time was awakened by the gunshots but she said that she did not dare step outside.
Speaking to the Express yesterday afternoon, Hazel Raymond said around 4.30 a.m. when, “people began exercising,” she got up and walked over to her brother’s apartment.
She said that she entered the bedroom and saw the bodies of her brother and his girlfriend and immediately ran back out and hurried over to the Morvant Police Station located not very far from their home.
She complained that the police did not immediately render her assistance, adding that one officer told her to sit in the waiting room of the police station and “relax yourself.”
She said that she left the station and returned to the murder scene.
