18-year-old killed in Enterprise

An 18-year-old man was killed last night after he was shot by unknown assailants outside his mother's minimart in Enterprise.

Looptt was told that at about 9pm last night, Denzil Guy, of Michael Terrace, Enterprise, was outside his home where he helped his mother, Sherry Ann Samuel, run a minimart. 

Suddenly two men wearing black clothing and hoodies over their heads approached the teenager. They shouted words at him and both men drew firearms that they had in their hands and fired in the direction of Guy.

The 18-year-old was struck multiple times about the body, and attempted to flee the scene. However, he collapsed a short distance away.

The assailants then made good their escape on foot by running east along Michael Terrace.

SCHOOL GIRLS DRUGGED

Just over two weeks ago a group of students damaged a teacher's vehicle with a scratch bomb blowing away the rear windshield .In this latest report three students were hospitalised yesterday, after ingesting a muffin brought by one student, allegedly laced with marijuana.

Bandit Shot and Killed in Roti Shop

A baby boy is tonight warded at hospital nursing gunshot wounds after he and his mother were caught in the middle of a shootout in Port-of-Spain, while in Barataria, Telecom Security officers were involved in a shootout of their own on Tenth Avenue Barataria. When the smoke cleared, one bandit lay dead on the roadway.

Trini Involved in Beheading

For the last few days the American media have been carrying stories about beheaded journalist, James Foley, who was murdered by Islamic State of Iraq & Al-Sham (ISIS). The ongoing Syria war has also seen several citizens beheaded by the same terrorist group. TV 6 in an exclusive investigative story a few months ago  entitled "Jihadists Among Us", reported that  Trinidadians might have quite possibly formed part of the Anti-Assad movement in Syria

Laventille man ambushed, shot dead

POLICE are continuing investigations into Tuesday night’s shooting death of a 20-year-old man, who was ambushed by three men when he left his home to go to Quarry Street, Laventille to get a phone card.
At 7.50 p.m., the police received a report about shots being fired at Quarry Street. A team of officers, led by Cpl Mohammed of the Port of Spain Division Task Force, sped to the scene, where they found the body of Triston Caesar.
According to his relatives, he worked at a fast food restaurant on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook and lived with them at their Lastique Street, East Dry River home.
Police said they were told that three men walked up to Caesar, stuffed a bandanna into his mouth and shot him several times about the body. He died on the scene.
Officers from the Crime Scene Unit as well as the Homicide Bureau conducted investigations.
His body was removed to the Port of Spain Mortuary and then yesterday morning to the Forensic Science Centre in St James.
Reporters spoke to his step-father Clyde Babb, who denied that the young man may have done something which led to his death.

BOY 12 "FORCED TO DRINK DISINFECTANT BY CLASSMATES" *

A 12-year-old boy attending a prominent primary school in San Fernando was forced to drink disinfectant and had pieces of newspaper stuffed into his mouth by classmates.
The child’s mother, Patrice Hills, said she was horrified by the incident and demanded a thorough investigation.
A report has been filed at San Fernando Police Station
The incident occurred at around 8.15 a.m. on Monday.
According to Hills, her son was blindfolded by three pupils in his classroom, held down and the chemical poured into his mouth. The boys then stuffed pieces of newspaper into his mouth.
Hills said her traumatized son reported the incident to the school principal and teacher, who made an attempt to contact her but the call went unanswered. She said her son complained of severe chest and stomach pains.

WHERE MOMMY AND DADDY

ARTIE RAMKHELEWAN, the three-year-old girl who survived having her throat slit by her own father on Sunday, yesterday kept asking nurses attending to her at the San Fernando General Hospital, for her mother and father.

“She kept asking, ‘where my mommy and daddy?’ to the nurses who were monitoring her,” said a source at the hospital.

The source added that Artie is still in a serious but stable condition and because of the severity of her injuries, she would remain at hospital for a few more days. Apart from having her throat slit, little Artie was stabbed in the chest and arms. She is being monitored closely around the clock by doctors and nurses.

The girl was found in the backseat of the family car at Penal, bleeding and lying next to the cold body of her 26-year-old mother Aarika Bhim. Artie’s father Premnath Ramkhelawan, 25, committed suicide by hanging himself. His body was found at the back of the family Laltoo Trace, Penal home.

The mother, father and their young daughter were last seen alive at the wedding of a relative in Julien’s Village, Princes Town on Sunday night. Investigators believe that Ramkhelawan first stabbed to death his common-law year wife of five years before stabbing his daughter and slitting her throat.