PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep 24 2015 – A former Coast Guard officer and a teenage girl were among three people slain between Tuesday night and yesterday, taking the murder toll to 321 for the year as murders continued a nationwide killing spree.
The three killings took the number of people killed since the September 7 general election to 30.
In the first incident, former Coast Guardsman Kwesi Young was hog tied, killed and stuffed in the trunk of a car on Tuesday night while his friend was left for dead outside the car.
According to police reports Young, 27, of Robert Street, Woodbrook, was found in the trunk of a silver Axio Corolla around 10:20 pm with gunshot wounds to his head and chest. His friend, Richard White, of East Dry River, Port-of-Spain, was found with his hands bound behind his back with a tie strap. He had been shot in his neck and face.
Police were on routine patrol in the Caroni district when they saw a car parked just off the west-bound lane of the Southern Main Road, Caroni, near La Paille Gardens.
The officers said they saw White at the back of the car making strange movements with his right leg. Inside the trunk they found Young.
White was taken to the Eric Williams Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where he underwent emergency surgery and was listed in stable condition yesterday.
According to sources in the Coast Guard, Young, who had joined the service in 2008, was dishonourably discharged in 2012 for conduct unbecoming of an officer.
In the other incident, Tobago recorded its third murder in two weeks after 17-year-old Shanese Roberts, of Fort Street, Scarborough, was shot to death at a Mt St George guest house around 7:30 pm Tuesday.
