HE WAS A LADIES MAN

The bandit was identified by police via fingerprints as David Antonio Allen, 31, of Enterprise, Chaguanas who served time behind bars for killing a man during a failed robbery. When his relatives saw photos of Allen, on social media, lying dead while still dressed as a woman, they went to the Woodbrook Police station. Yesterday, the relatives including Allen’s mother, went to the Forensic Science Centre in St James and made a positive identification of his body.

According to reports, Allen was a former employee at a bar in Portof- Spain and relatives told police the last time they saw him alive was on Monday. Later that evening, a woman entered the Stir Fry King restaurant and casino in Woodbrook and immediately attracted the attention of several male patrons, who purchased food and drinks for her. This ‘woman’ was Allen dressed in drag, face covered in make-up and a gun hidden in his waist.

At 11 pm, Allen made his move, pointing his gun at cashier Pei Daxiu and announcing a hold-up.

Allen was given a bag containing $40,000. But as he was leaving the establishment, a policeman who is on vacation leave, called out to Allen to surrender. During an exchange of gunfire, Allen was shot several times and slumped to the ground where he bled to death.

The bag of money, a gun and several rounds of ammunition were recovered.

The body was viewed by the district medical officer and ordered removed to the Forensic Science Centre. Yesterday, Allen’s mother, who asked not to be identified, said claims that he was a homosexual were absolutely wrong.

“I’m letting you all know that my son was not an angel, alright. I am not saying the police was wrong.

The police was there and he did his duty. At the end of the day, everyone is saying my son was gay and a maccomere man. NO! He put on a disguise to do his *expletive deleted*.

Please...allyuh back off! Get to know before allyuh talk. Don’t make allyuh comments if allyuh don’t know my child. He was quite a ladies man,” the woman said.

The woman said that Allen had one daughter. “He was with a Japanese girl for a while...but let we not put that on the news cause that done a while now. May his soul rest in peace. We all loved him. We will all miss him. He will remain in our hearts. But I will not say that he was perfect. Who is? That is all I have to say,” the woman said.

Another man who claimed to be Allen’s brother, said that he would not hide the fact his brother was indeed imperfect. “If I meet the officer who killed my brother now and they told me I had to shake his hand for a job well done...I would.

At the end of the day, the officer had his duty to perform and he did it. I will not lie to anyone and say my brother was an angel or a menace (mother interjects: ‘he was not a menace’) what I will say is whatever he did, he did on his own free will. The hardest part for me is that my little brother gone and dead four days before my wedding. I still taking that to heart especially after waiting all these years for him to come out (of prison) so he could be a part of my wedding,” he said.

Allen was convicted and jailed for shooting and killing a man - Darryn Baksh - in 2004 during a failed robbery outside the 51 Degrees nightclub at Cipriani Boulevard, Port-of-Spain.