Embacadere man gunned down
Saturday 16 January 2021
A man with several gun and gun-related cases pending in the Southern and South Western Division was gunned down in San Fernando on Friday afternoon.
Michael Ato Gaskill, 28, died on the scene at the HDC housing development building off Ramsaran Street. He lived at Lady Hailes Avenue, Embacadere, in an area known as the Bronx. He was unemployed. He also had other addresses in Fyzabad, police said.
Reports are, at about 3 pm on Friday, residents heard gunshots and later found Gaskill’s body with gunshot wounds at the side of the building.
Police were contacted.
Three men will appear before magistrates in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court and the Princes Town Magistrates’ Court today, each charged with sexual penetration of a minor.
The men, ages 22, 33 and 35 years respectively, were held over the weekend in three separate exercises executed by officers of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) and the Special Operations Response Team (SORT).
In the first incident, a 22-year-old man of Chester Street, Debe, was arrested in connection with a report made by a 17-year-old girl that she allegedly was sexually assaulted by a man while at her home.
WPC Alexander, of the Southern Division CPU, led the investigation, which ended in the arrest of the suspect on December 18th.