Three killed in ten hours

Ricardo John, Winston John, and Sheldon Campbell are the latest victims . The murder toll is now 151 for the year.

An innocent bystander Ricardo John, 42, a resident of Riverside Plaza since 2010, was simply going to a parlour to get something to eat at about 8.15 pm, when he was hitby bullets intended for another man.

Newsday understands unknown gunmen came, seemingly from nowhere, with their guns in hand and began shooting at a man identified as Kenwin “Mang” Fagan.

John, who was shot multiple times along with Fagan, died at the scene while Fagan was taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital. Fagan remains at hospital in a critical condition.

Newsday yesterday spoke to Roger Watson, manager of Riverside Plaza. He described the situation as sad. He said John was a jovial and friendly person who suffered from a mental illness.

“Just on Tuesday, he went to Public Assistance to apply,” said Watson “He was a very nice person.

He was not a troublemaker.

He went to the clinic regularly and got his medication. He would be in before the gate is locked and would only come out when it was opened.

He was just a nice man who went to get something to eat, and now he is dead.”

Enterprise man killed in Santa Cruz Death came calling a second time on Wednesday night. This time, it claimed the life of 37-yearold Winston John, an Enterprise man who was staying at a companion’s home in Santa Cruz.

According to reports, at about 2 am yesterday, John heard knocking at the door of the house at Pipiol Road, Santa Cruz. The people at the door claimed to be police.

When John went to answer the door, the men drew their guns and shot him multiple times. He fell to the floor and eventually died at the scene.

Police investigating his murder say that he had been known to police, as he was a person of interest in several enquiries into criminal offences.

PH Driver killed in bed The last of the three murders occurred at about 4 am at Marcano Quarry, Laventille, while he was laying in his bed. The slain man has been identified as Sheldon Campbell. Residents awoke to gunshots early yesterday morning.

When they checked, Campbell was found lying in a pool of blood on his bed. He was pronounced dead at the scene by a District Medical Officer. Hours later, at the Forensic Science Centre,St James his brother, Lyle Worrel, said he had come from America to take his 14-yearold son away from the violence in this country, only to hear that his brother was killed.

“I came just this Monday to get my son, because of what is going on here.” said Worrel, “Life is a million times safer and better in America, than down here. The way Trinidad is now, if you from one place and you warring with another place you cannot go there. If one of the people from another place pass and see you they will kill you. That is what Trinidad reach to. What I want to know is how come they have police patrolling and these men still getting away with this?” Worrel described his brother as a friendly person who constantly preached the teachings of Rastafari.

Newsday understands he was a PH driver.

Maracas man died from gunshots An autopsy done on the body of Kareem Fernando, a 30-year-old man killed on Wednesday morning, confirms that he died from multiple gunshot wounds.

At about 11.40 am, Fernando was sitting outside his La Mango Road home, when two gunmen approached him and shot him dead.

No motive has yet been established for his murder and no arrests have been made.