Shooting with intent trial

PORT-OF-Spain resident Kerwin Lawrence yesterday appeared before High Court Judge Malcolm Holdip in the Port-of-Spain Fifth Criminal Court charged with shooting at TECH Investment employee Naba Mohammed, with intent to commit grievous bodily harm during an incident in June 1997.

State attorney Dinanath Ramkissoon told the court including the nine member jury, that around 1.10 pm on June 13, 1997, Mohammed and other colleagues were at their work place at No 6 Milling Avenue, Sea Lots, when Lawrence and another man entered the building. Ramkissoon told the court that Lawrence, placed a gun to the head of Clyde Gilbert, an employee of TECH Investment Limited, and forced him into another part of the building.

Sometime after this Lawrence kicked open the door to an office where he saw Mohammed and shot him in the left leg in the region of his calf.
The men then fled the scene and a report was made to the police. Following an investigation, Lawrence was arrested on June 26, 1997 and placed on an identification parade on June 27, 1997, where he was positively identified as the person who had shot Mohammed. Attorney Wayne Sturge is representing Lawrence in the matter, while Ramkissoon appears for the State. The matter continues today.