(Trinidad Express) Police believe a man named Azad Ali can help them with information that can solve the murders of Salma Chadee in Caroni and Sherlene Mahangoo-Charles in Ste Madeleine.
Investigators yesterday asked that Ali make contact with them at the Southern Division Homicide Bureau at 652-0495.
Anyone with information on Ali’s whereabouts should also make contact with the police. Ali also goes by the name Joe Ali, and had a nickname—Goat.
On the night of May 8, 2014, 37-year-old cook Mahangoo-Charles was shot dead and her 15-year-old daughter, Kimberly Mahangoo, was wounded after a lone gunman whom they knew entered their house at Stony Hill, Tarodale. The woman’s seven-year-old son was a witness to the killing, but was not injured.
The suspect, Tarodale residents said, was seen driving near the house after the killing, but eluded police capture.
The murder investigation went cold until last Saturday night, when the same suspect is believed to have shot and killed 19-year-old Chadee, a mother of an 11-month old baby, at her home in La Paille Village. The man had been living in the house for some time, police said.
Police were told there was an argument with a group of people in Chadee’s home at Chadee Street when the man pulled a firearm and shot Chadee several times.
The suspect, who uses a wheelchair after both legs were broken in a recent vehicular crash, escaped the scene in a vehicle.
The man who killed Chadee was captured on surveillance camera at her house crawling to the exit of the premises after the shooting.
Several photographs of the suspect are in the hands of police, who have been asked to examine the man’s features and keep a lookout for him. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous.
Investigators believe the suspect is being assisted by his relatives.
When the Express visited an area in Claxton Bay yesterday where the suspect allegedly lives, relatives were not at home.
However, some residents said the relatives of the suspect were “arrogant”, and that the suspect did not frequent his family home or the area.
Other residents said the family were “good people”, but knew little of the suspect.