Teen charged for George’s murder

ACTING Director of Public Prosecutions  Carla Browne-Antoine yesterday instructed officers of the North Eastern Division to charge a 16-year-old boy with the unlawful killing of teenager Gideon George.

The young man is to appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate today to answer the charge laid by Cpl Patrick Thomas of the Morvant Criminal Investigations Department. Senior officers told Newsday yesterday that the explanation the teenager gave regarding a firearm suggests that he knows a lot about guns. Police were up to late evening searching several areas for the firearm used in Monday’s fatal shooting, which occurred at Never Dirty, Morvant. George was shot in the abdomen shortly before 11 am that day while, it was alleged, he and his friend were playing with a homemade shotgun. Young George died about 20 minutes after being shot.  A post-mortem performed at the Forensic Science Centre on Tuesday revealed he died as a result of the gunshot injury.