Another shooting near police station

This is the second shooting incident near a police station with the first taking place last week in which two men were shot dead outside the Maracas Police Station.

The victims of yesterday’s shooting incident have been identified as Devanand Deosaran, 32, and Damian Augustine, 37. According to police, at about 4.30 am, officers at the police station heard gunshots on the road outside the building and responded. On checking, the officers saw a silver-coloured Mitsubishi Lancer car along the roadway.

When they checked further, they found Deosaran of Charlieville in the car.

Augustine of Chaguanas was making his way into the police station, bleeding from several gunshot wounds.

The two men were taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EW MSC) in Mt Hope where they were treated for gunshot injuries and remain warded in serious but stable condition. Last week Thursday, Kurland ‘Mice Man’ George and Shameel Ali were shot dead while they were on their way to the Maracas police station.

George, a reputed drug lord was on his way to the police station to sign the attendance book as a requirement for bail being granted to him.

It is believed that a contract was placed on his life and that his murder was a ‘hit’. Ali, police added, was collateral damage, losing his life for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The gunmen who shot Deosaran and Augustine remain at large while those who gunned down George and Ali are also at large.

Meanwhile, the hairdresser who was shot in her face on Sunday afternoon remains warded in critical condition at the EW MSC. At about 2.30 pm, Essenese Sambury alighted from her car and was about to enter the yard of her Palm Drive, Trincity home when a car pulled up nearby and one of the occupants fired several shots. Sambury was struck on the right side of her face and neck.