Construction worker gunned down

FAMILY members of 25-year-old Marlon Dennie are baffled at his shooting death which occurred in the Laventille district Wednesday night.

Dennie, who would have turned 26 on May 13, of St George Circular Road, Gonzales, was shot and killed while liming with a friend at La Resource Street around 7.30 pm. Police reports are that three men approached Dennie and the other man. They opened fire, striking Dennie approximately four times about the body. Dennie fell to the ground and died on the spot, while the three men fled the scene and up to late evening, they had not been captured. A report was made and a party of officers from the Port-of-Spain Division under Insp Manswell and including acting Insps Manechand Ramnarine and Persad, Sgt Randolph Boyce, Cpl Bridgeman and others from the Homicide department visited the scene and conducted investigations.

District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr Kenneth Chai Hong was also called in to view the body and ordered its removal to the Port-of-Spain mortuary for an onward transmisison to the Forensic Science Centre for a post mortem yesterday. The autopsy, performed by pathologist Dr Hughvon DesVignes, revealed that Dennie, a construction worker, died as a result of multiple gunshot injuries.   In an interview yesterday, Dennie’s younger sister, Alicia, 17, told Newsday she had no idea why anyone would want to kill her brother. Senior police officers confirmed that they had no criminal record against Dennie and were just as puzzled about the construction worker’s murder. Alicia also said she had no idea what her brother was doing in the Laventille area. His mother, Rosalind Dennie, said she had never had problems with him. “I am leaving everything in God’s hand,” the mother of five told Newsday. No arrests had been made up to late evening and Cpl Bridgeman of the Besson Street Criminal Investigations Department is continuing investigations.