Cops baffled over fatal shooting of driver

Police officers investigating the fatal shooting of Laventille taxi-driver Nicholai Win-chester on Wednesday afternoon said yesterday that they are yet to establish a motive for the murder of the country’s 89th victim.

An autopsy carried out yesterday on the body of Laventille taxi-driver Nicholai Winchester, revealed that death was due to shock and haemorrhage consistent with two gunshot wounds to the chest. The autopsy was carried out yesterday by Dr Hughvon Des Vignes at the Forensic Science Centre. Winchester, the father of a five-year-old girl died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after being shot twice by a lone gunman.

Reports revealed that around 3.30 pm, Winchester who lived at Erica Street, was at Prizgar Lands, Laventille, when he was confronted by a gunman who shot him. Inspector Ramnarine, Sgt Boyce and a party of officers carried out inquiries. Relatives told Newsday that Winchester earned a living working as a taxi-driver, and as far as they knew he was not involved in any illicit activities and his taxi-was being repaired at the time of his death. At the Forensic Science Centre, relatives refused to divulge any further information and refused to be photographed.