Maraval man killed near Police station
A MAN out on an early morning jog yesterday morning came upon the bullet-riddled and bloodstained body of a man lying in the savannah of the Maraval Recreation Ground mere walking distance from the Maraval Police Station.
Police investigating the murder of 29-year-old Wade Charles told Newsday they believed that Charles’ death was drug related as they found a quantity of marijuana clenched in his hands. But his wife, Nadalia Charles said that while he never told her what he did “on the outside”, as far as she was concerned, he was a good man, a good husband and a good provider to his family. She was critical of the police who failed to catch a killer so close to the police station. The police station is walking distance to the Maraval Recreation ground where Charles was shot dead. However police sources responded that officers on duty did hear multiple gunshots on Wednesday night, but when they went to the savannah, they could see nothing and no one since the floodlights on the Pavilion roof had been smashed. Officers also complained that residents and regular limers on-the-block were refusing to say anything to them.
Charles was one of three persons shot dead in separate incidents on Wednesday. Two of the shootings were murders while in the third, a bandit was shot dead by a Sea Lots businessman whom he had gone to rob. Wednesday night’s killings have sent the overall murder rate for this year to 70. ACP (North) Celestine Richards, Snr Supt Selwyn Glasgow, ASP Badal, Insp Narciss Cadette, Cpl Dennison Henry and Homicide Bureau officer Cpl Michael Veronique visited the scene. DMO Dr Pounder arrived and examined the body which appeared to have three gunshot wounds, with at least two being to the back. The body was later removed to the Port-of-Spain Mortuary.
An autopsy carried out yesterday afternoon at the Forensic Sciences Centre confirmed that Charles died of shock and haemorrhage consistent with multiple gunshot wounds. Charles’ wife Nadalia said she last saw her husband alive on Wednesday night when he left home around 7 pm. “He did not return home and this morning a relative came saying that the police had just found his body in the savannah,” she said. Cpl Henry of Maraval CID is continuing investigations.
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