(Trinidad Guardian) Police are hunting for a man who shot Dennison Rodney ten times after the two began arguing after an accident in Diego Martin yesterday. Unfortunately, the cops may be stumped in their attempt to solve the case of road rage as no one saw the man who shot Rodney in the early hours of Friday.
According to police, Rodney, 42, of Cocorite Terrace, Diego Martin, was driving on the west-bound lane of the Diego Martin Highway near the Powder Magazine flyover around 4.30 am when he got into an accident. Rodney and the other driver came out of their vehicles and began arguing, police said. Rodney then walked off but was pursued by the other driver who pulled out a gun and shot him ten times. Rodney bled to death at the scene.
Police said the car involved in the accident was later spotted in Pioneer Drive, Petit Valley. It had a minor scratch on the front left bumper but had been reported stolen days before. Police said the car is now being processed for any fingerprints and other evidence.
One senior policeman told the T&T Guardian that they were now pursuing two angles as the killing was “strange.” He said while Rodney was not known to be involved in any criminal activity, they had not ruled out the possibility that his killing was a hit, especially since the car involved in the accident was found abandoned.
The policeman said for a man to shoot someone like that following a minor argument meant he had a “depraved mind,” adding it was too drastic an act to undertake in a mere accident. After police arrived on the scene and cordoned off the roadway traffic backed up all the way to PriceSmart, MovieTowne, and St James. Rodney, a senior maintenance officer at Vemco Limited, was remembered by his boss, Peter Welch, as a gentleman. Welch said Rodney was a “genuine person, full of kindness and peaceful by nature.” Rodney’s mother, Gaylene, said her son, from “since inside my belly” never gave her any trouble. She said he had done several things out of character yesterday, in-cluding driving to work instead of travelling as he did the previous four days; left home without saying goodbye to her and he argued with a stranger following an accident. “I have to go bury my child just so.
