Guard detained for fatal shooting

The security officer was detained after Verne ‘Pomba’ Sambury died at San Fernando General Hospital, after he was shot three times.

Yesterday, Southern Division Homicide detectives confirmed that a file was sent to DPP Gaspard for his consideration.

Sambury’s relatives insisted he was unarmed and only went to purchase two loaves of bread from the supermarket. But police were told that the guard thought Sambury had come to rob the establishment and a scuffle ensued.

Sambury, 38, of Naparima/Mayaro Road, New Grant was shot in the stomach, arm and foot by the guard who was on duty at the supermarket.

He underwent emergency surgery at hospital but died hours later.

According to police, Sambury was shot outside the New Grant supermarket at 8 am. Sambury’s brother Hayden Hamilton told Newsday that Sambury who lived a stone’s throw away from the supermarket, went to purchase the bread for a villager when he was shot.

Video footage of the shooting has been circulating on social media.

Relatives yesterday said while they cannot bring Sambury back, they hope that at the very least, justice will be served.

“He was an innocent man who just went to buy bread and instead was shot and killed,” a relative cried.