(Trinidad Express) Two men were found dead in separate incidents early Thursday morning.
The first occurred around 4 a.m. in St Helena. Police said around that time the victim, Shaquille Quamie, a doubles vendor who lived at Laundry Road, St Helena, was packing his car with channa, barra and other items when he was ambushed by a group of people.
Police said they stabbed him multiple times about the body, and he died on the spot. No one in the area emerged immediately after the incident, and his body was found around 8 a.m. by a relative.
Senior officers from the Northern Central Division said Quamie was not someone who was known to them.
The Express visited the community to speak with his relatives Thursday afternoon, but while some residents acknowledged seeing police cars in their community that morning, none of them knew who Quamie was. “He must have moved up here very recently because we do not know him at all,” said a woman, who asked not to be identified. A group of men at work at a hybrid vehicle service centre said, they did not know that name either. Police said Quamie’s body will be examined either today or early next week, at the Forensic Science Centre, Federation Park. The murder toll stood at 450 up to last night, while the toll on this date last year was 426.
In the other incident a man’s body was found in a cemetery in Morvant.
Police said around 5.45 a.m. someone found the body at the Baptiste Cemetery, Morvant, following which they called the police.
Officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force responded and the scene was secured until the body was examined by the Crime Scene Unit and the Region One Homicide Bureau.
Police were unable to speculate how this man may have died and, as a result, they were awaiting autopsy results.
The body was later moved to a mortuary in East Port of Spain and will be examined at the Forensic Science Centre, pending positive identification.
