The murder toll in Trinidad climbed to 400 after several people including Regiment member were SHOT and KILLED

The murder toll climbed to 400 after several people, including a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment, were shot and killed over the weekend.

Police said that Lance Corporal Rawle Fletcher, 34, was shot multiple times in the head, while his best friend and businessman Mitra Maharaj, 45, was shot several times about the body in a drive-by shooting that also claimed the life of a 19-year-old National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) student, Anil Diram.

The Trinidad Regiment in a statement said Defence Force personnel were working alongside the police “to determine the perpetrators of this gruesome act”

Police said the three people were outside a bar, near Inshan Ali bar in Preysal, south of here, on Sunday morning, when the occupants of a vehicle fired upon them.

Police said a back seat passenger walked out of the car, stood over Fletcher and Maharaj and shot them multiple times.

Meanwhile, police said an employee of United Independent Petroleum Marketing Company Limited (Unipet) who was shot and killed on Saturday night, may have been linked to an illegal diesel racket that has taken a multi-million-dollar hit in recent times.

They said Nigel Hosein, 38, a father of two, was returning home from the company’s Christmas dinner when his vehicle as blocked by another vehicle and one of the occupants fired several shots at Hosein killing him in the presence of his wife.

In another incident, police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the body of a man found murdered in Laventille, along the east-west corridor on Saturday night.

The police said that the unidentified man had several gunshot wounds to the head.

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Comment by Deshawn Thomas on January 2, 2014 at 2:38am: trinidad murder rate off the chart
more majority older&young folks
bodies being stabbed up&shot up

Comment by J-ROCK on January 2, 2014 at 1:30am: Murder rate in T&T as we speak is 2 so far....

Comment by Deshawn Thomas on January 1, 2014 at 10:51pm: the home of sweet t&t massive
where my family born&raised
there hole entire of life carried
caribbean ascent from trinidad
heard alot of real story was told
nothing was mention of violence
once on the internet did research
started reading alot on trinidad
even include other different island

Comment by AfricanGoddess on December 31, 2013 at 8:51pm: Tell them,our people are truly simple minded and blind! @ Matthew Hawk

Comment by AfricanGoddess on December 31, 2013 at 8:45pm: @ gskeete

So,is that seriously the solution?No wonder we can't progress as a people!

Negropean thinking and shyt..

Comment by vaughn mitchell on December 29, 2013 at 8:49pm: Trinis, blaming Jamaicans but not themselves for the killings wow.

Comment by albert . grant on December 27, 2013 at 8:06am: People make stupid statements and when you respond they say we should all get along. You idiots are the ones who are dividing you ass....

Comment by mike on December 27, 2013 at 7:37am: Seems everything that happens abroad jcans n Colombians get the blame.... They may as well pin JFK and Martin Luther King's murders on jcans n Colombians also...

Comment by exotic eyes on December 27, 2013 at 2:04am: Oh beautiful La Trinity! What is becoming of you? Let your citizens stand strong and together like those tall mountains which protect the powerful and destructive hurricanes from destroying you.

Comment by mr fix on December 26, 2013 at 8:24pm: @Hate is taught and you're right and we all knows this but Jealousy and envy among ourself is not divided and conquer its just that. Jealousy and envy equal Hate this problem will not go away unless there is a need for unity.