US expat shot dead in Morvant
A 38-year-year-old US national was shot dead in Morvant on Sunday night.
Police said Hassan Sanchez, was in the backyard of his home at Granado Street, Sawmill Avenue, at around 10.45 pm when he was shot several times.
Sanchez s relatives heard the gunshots and found him bleeding on the ground.
Police went to the scene with a district medical officer, who declared Sanchez dead.
They said Sanchez had dual citizenship and had been a resident of the US since 2016.
Investigators from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region II are continuing enquiries.
Carapo man found dead
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Police are continuing enquiries into the death of a 23-year-old man whose body was found in Carapo on Monday morning.
They said residents reported finding a body at Race Course Road at around 9.14 am.
Members of the Northern Division Emergency Response Patrol found the body in a grassy area near a car park.
Homicide Investigators were called.
Investigators said he appeared to have been shot in the head.
The Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region II is continuing enquiries.
Three men shot dead in separate incidents: Murder spree
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One man begged for his life outside his home when he was shot dead, another managed to save the lives of relatives when he alerted them to the presence of gunmen in his casino when he too was killed. A third was selling doubles when he was felled by a hail of bullets.
This sums up a spate of killings on Tuesday night.
The killings brought the murder toll to 389 for the year thus far, compared to 518 for the corresponding period last year.
In the first incident market vendor Michel Diaz, 35, was taking garbage out at his Tunapuna home at around 7.30 pm.
Murdered Tunapuna market vendor begged killer for mercy
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Relatives of slain market vendor Michel Diaz believe he might have known his killer, as he made one last call for his life to be spared.
Diaz, 35, was shot dead outside his Tunapuna Road, Tunapuna, home at around 7.30 pm on Tuesday while he was taking out the garbage.
Speaking with Newsday at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, on Wednesday, one of Diaz s relatives, who asked not to be named, said she did not know why anyone would want him dead, describing him as an easy-going, family-oriented man.
She said Diaz was doing some Christmas cleaning when he was gunned down.
Tabaquite labourer ‘called out to work’ before death, cops say
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Police have identified the body of a man found in Claxton Bay on Sunday morning as Tabaquite labourer Mikael Joseph.
Joseph, 32, was found dead in bushes at Macaulay Road at around 7.45 am with a gunshot wound to his left ear.
Police said Joseph, who was originally from Gasparillo, was living in Tabaquite at the time.
Investigators said Joseph was last seen by relatives on Saturday evening when he got a call from a man to come out to work.
Police said up to press time they had no motive for the killing and were continuing investigations.