Man killed by police, daughter wants answers

Speaking to reporters at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, a visibly distraught Moses said that despite being told by police officers that her father was killed, she has not seen his body and she has yet to receive any details of the circumstances surrounding his killing.

“I got a call from police officers who told me that my dad was shot and killed,” Moses said.

“So I visited the Barataria Police Station and they showed me his identification card as well as other personal items that they recovered from the body. I came to the Forensic Sciences Centre this morning and they (the police) are saying that his body isn’t here.

They are saying that his body is at a funeral home in San Juan. I don’t understand how it can be at a funeral home and not at Forensics.

Right now I’m just trying to get some information on what happened.” Moses said the funeral home, confirmed that her father’s body is being kept there, but she was not allowed to view the body and, despite repeated attempts, she has not received any information into his death.

“All they’re saying is that they don’t have any information. It’s very hard for all of us. I would just like to know where his body is right now and they’re not giving me any information at this time.

They won’t even tell me why I can’t go and see my father’s body.

I’m not pointing any fingers, I would just like to know what happened.” Moses, described her father as a colourful man who was loved by many and was not in trouble with the law. “He wasn’t involved in anything illegal. When he was younger he was arrested for marijuana possession, not for guns or ammunition or anything like that. He served his time and that was years ago. I was told that he was shot by a young officer with little more than a year’s experience.

He surrendered to police and he was still shot.” Moses said that she intends to file a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority.

According to reports at about midnight last Friday, Curt Moses a labourer, of Second Caledonia, Morvant, entered a taxi in San Juan. Officers of the Barataria Police Station, who were on patrol in the area, intercepted the vehicle in which he was traveling.

He attempted to exit the vehicle when he was shot and killed