A 25-year-old San Juan man died at hospital on Tuesday night after being shot during a shootout with police on Tuesday. According to police reports, Karim Cain, of Bourg Mulatresse Road, San Juan, died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital while undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds.
North Eastern Division Task Force officers, led by Sgt Cornelius Samuel, had reportedly gone to Doolarie Trace, San Juan, after receiving information there was a man with a gun in the area.
Police said when they arrived there around 6.30 pm Cain fired at them. The officers returned fire and shot Cain, who was then taken to hospital. Police said they recovered a Glock 26 pistol with and an extended magazine. Cain, they said, had been previously charged for robbery with violence and narcotic offences.
In a release yesterday, head of the North Eastern Division Task Force, Snr Supt Radcliffe Boxhill, said he regretted the fact that Cain had been killed but was thankful none of his officers had been injured in the shootout. He urged his officers to continue their fight to rid the country of illegal weapons.
In an unrelated incident, also on Tuesday, two Diego Martin men were arrested after they were caught with a gun and eight rounds of ammunition. Police said Northern Division Task Force officers, led by Sgt Pitt and Cpl Pamphille, were on patrol around 4 pm at The Falls, West Mall car park, when they saw two men in a car acting suspiciously.
The officers searched them and their vehicle and found a Taurus pistol and eight rounds of 9mm ammunition in the car. The men—27 and 26 of Four Roads, Diego Martin—were arrested and handed over to Western Division Police.