Arima, Maracas killings take murder toll to 122

These two deaths took the toll to 122.

The first killing of the night took place at around 9.15, when Neil Curtis Clement, 17, was stabbed to death during a party at Uncle Sam’s Bar, North Coast Road, Maracas Bay.

Clement, a fisherman of Bay Road, Las Cuevas, was stabbed in the left upper chest when he got into an argument with a group of men.

Eyewitnesses contacted the Maracas Bay police who responded and cordoned off the area around the bar. Clement’s body was removed to the Port-of-Spain mortuary. Police say arrests are imminent.

More than an hour later, at around 10.50 pm, Andrew Charles, 27, was shot to death at his friend Ryan Khan’s Guava Avenue home on the By-Pass Road in Arima. Three men entered his yard and asked Khan for Charles.

A fight began and the three men stormed the house and shot Charles three times.

They then escaped by running north along Guava Avenue. Charles was found bleeding from wounds to the face and was pronounced dead by the district medical officer Dr Mohammed.

His body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre in St James.