Security officer shot dead in Moruga

According to police reports at about 5.35am on Saturday morning, Sgt Santlal of the St. Mary’s Police Post was told the body of a man was seen lying on the road at Samuel Cooper Road. He and other police went to the scene where the body was later identified as that of Brian Warren of Fifth Company in Moruga .

The body bore several gunshots wounds. Warren was dressed in his Allied Security Services uniform.

ASPs Ali and Mohammed and Insp Persad along with members of the Homicide Bureau also visited the scene.

No motive for the killing has been established so far. A post mortem is expected to be done tomorrow at the Forensic Sciences Centre. When Sunday Newsday visited Warren’s home yesterday, a male relative said he was known throughout the village as “Happy” and was well liked.

“Happy was good. He was not a bad person or a bad boy,” the distraught man said.

He recalled having seen Warren on Friday evening when he (Warren) had informed him that a group of people from the community had organised a lime and he would provide them with electricity from his house for the music speaker boxes. Warren was not married and lived alone.

Asked whether Warren had ever expressed concerns about threats to his life, the relative shook his head vigorously saying “no, no, nothing, no.”