(Trinidad Express) The second suspect in the killing of medical practioner Dr Rudradeva Sharma has been released from hospital.
Police said the 17 year old suspect, was discharged from hospital wearing a back brace and in a wheel chair.
A senior officer said that the suspect is considered somewhat “incapacitated” as doctors believe he suffered partial paralysis.
He was released into his mother’s care, and was allowed to return to his home at Lady Hailes Avenue, San Fernando, to recover.
Homicide detectives are expected to interview him at a later date, said the senior officer.
He had been at hospital under police guard since the incident on January 15.
Sharma, 38, was killed in a vehicular crash when he and his colleague, Dr Prem Vijay Naidoo, 39, were hijacked by at Rushworth Street Extension, San Fernando.
They had gone to the dead-end street in Sharma’s Honda CRV when Naidoo said they were held up at gunpoint by four men.
The doctors were robbed and forced into the trunk of the SUV and were being taken north along the Solomon Hochoy highway when the vehicle crashed and overturned several times at Macaulay.
One of the three suspects — Akeem Marine, 19 — died at hospital the following day.
On Thursday Antonio Francois, 19, appeared in the magistrates court for the murder of Sharma and Marine.
The charges were laid under the murder felony rule, a principle which involves a person being killed during the commission of an arrestable offence involving violence, even if there was no intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm.
Francois, of San Fernando, was also charged that together with others, armed with firearms, he took and unlawfully carried away Sharma and Naidoo against his will.
Francois was also charged with armed robbery with the use of personal violence after Sharma’s $2,500 cellular phone and his CRV.
The charge that he robbed Naidoo of a US$175 cellular phone and used violence towards him was also read.
