(Trinidad Express) The soldier who was shot and killed in La Puerta, Diego Martin, last month was a hitman for hire in the criminal underworld and had been involved in the murders of several people in the past.
Senior investigators say 27-year-old Denapoli Nicholas Greene had been involved in nefarious activities, including murder, based on information and intelligence they had obtained.
Greene was shot dead on the night of February 18 near his home while liming with a group of men at La Puerta Avenue.
Investigators said that on that Sunday, around 9.45 p.m., a silver-colour-ed vehicle approached the gathering and two gunmen got out and started shooting at the group. Greene was shot multiple times and died on the scene.
The three other men were also shot several times and were later taken to hospital, where they were treated and released.
Investigators say Greene’s death was connected to his involvement in the murders that happened in late December on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway. In that incident, the intended target, Kman 6ixx (Kashif Sankar), and another man escaped unhurt.
Kman 6ixx has since been charged with being a gang member.
Other members of the Sixx gang were shot and killed—31-year-old Jerry Hollingsworth, alias “J-Man”; and brothers Levi, 26, and Damian Kriss, 31. The fourth victim in the killing was small business operator Lana Sahadeo, who peered out the window during the commotion and was shot in the head by one of the gunmen.
The men had abandoned their vehicle along the highway, just after the traffic lights in St Augustine, near The University of the West Indies, after they came under fire by the gunmen who pursued them on foot.
The Sunday Express was also informed by sources that Greene was part of the team who carried out the highway killings. Greene was in the white Hyundai Elantra motor car, part of a convoy that led the attack on the men who had left Piarco International Airport just minutes earlier.
“The killing of Greene was definitely in retaliation for those Sixx gang members,” a police investigator told the Sunday Express.
But Greene’s murderous trail does not end there. Police say they have credible information he was one of the two shooters involved in the killing of Tevin Morrison, alias “Piggy”, who was shot on Saddle Road, Maraval, in early July 2023.
Morrison was sitting in a Mercedes-Benz on Saddle Road, in the company of Brian Eastman, alias “Tools”, and another man near Maraval Plaza, when a black Hyundai Elantra motor car pulled up alongside them.
The occupants of the Elantra opened fire on the men sitting in the vehicle. Eastman attempted to reverse the vehicle, but crashed into a business place inside Maraval Plaza.
One of the men escaped from the Mercedes before the two shooters exited the Elantra and opened fire, killing Morrison and injuring Eastman.
Sources say based on information they received, the black Elantra involved in the killing of “Piggy” was also used in the killing of the four people in the highway incident—it was merely “painted over from black to white”.
Police also believe Greene was one of two men who shot and killed Nigel Pompey, alias “Nigey”, in Petit Valley in March 2022.
Pompey was liming near Hillcrest Drive, Petit Valley, with another man around 6 p.m. when two gunmen approached them and opened fire on him.