(Trinidad Guardian) Mayhem and chaos erupted in the carpark of the Courts Megastore in San Juan as gunshots rang out sending Christmas shoppers and staff inside the store to scamper for cover. In the end, two siblings lay dead and two others were on the ground nursing gunshot injuries. The shooter was an off-duty police officer.
What prompted the deadly shooting is now the subject of three investigations by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, the Police Complaints Authority and the TTPS Professional Standards Bureau.
Yesterday as news of the incident broke, the T&T Police Service (TTPS) claimed the shooting in the car park of the Courts Megastore was the result of an attempted robbery of an off-duty police officer but relatives of the two siblings killed at the scene strongly denied this.
Hours after the incident, which also sent three others, including the off-duty police officer to the hospital, Unicomer (Trinidad) Ltd distanced itself from the furore which it claimed had resulted from a “private financial transaction” that had been taking place on its compound.