Too violent in TT

Robert Mc Inniss, 36, a Jamaican national was shot dead just after midnight on Saturday near a bar in Curepe.

The mother of the victim’s one-year-old son, stood outside the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, having arrived in the country hours earlier.

“Not me and Trinidad.

People fi kill you here for nothing,” said the woman who did not want to give her name.

“Mi ah go back fi Jamaica one time. I cyah deal with the way things are here. I don’t like this country because it is so violent here,” said the Jamaican, whose country is also well-known internationally for its own levels of violence and murders.

According to reports, Mc Inniss who was an employee at a liquor mart in San Juan, was near Bruce Bar at the corner of Bushe and Belle Smythe streets in Curepe when at about 12.30 am on Saturday, gunshots rang out and he fell into a nearby drain on being shot in the head. He was rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EW MSC) in Mt Hope, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The woman described Mc Inniss as a jovial, kind-hearted person. She said he was never involved in any criminal activity as far as she could tell and the only altercation he had was with another man in the Diego Martin area. Police are still trying to ascertain a motive in his death, as investigations continue.

The murder toll stands at 442, compared to 394, for the same period last year.