The ability to work a PH taxi is being blamed for the death of a 35-year-old Cascade man who was killed not to far from his home on Tuesday night.
According to police reports, Colin “Crabby” Harewood of Casablanca Road, Cascade, was with friends near St Nevis Baptist Church around 9.30 pm when gunshots were heard.
Police said no one contacted them and about three hours later they were notified. When officers arrived they found Harewood motionless, soaking in his own blood. He was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police said Harewood, who works PH and had another vehicle which he outsourced, had recently fired the driver. Police are working on the theory that this may have caused his death as the father of two was not known to be involved in criminal activity based on preliminary checks.
Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday Harewood’s mother, Earlyn Mathlin, said she was putting everything in God’s hands. Mathlin said her only son was given the vehicle by her but he was contracted to pay her back in an attempt to teach him responsibility.
Harewood’s father, Alfred Harewood, said his son’s killing was a shock to him and his family, while a family friend, who identified herself only as Shafiqya, said Harewood was a jolly man who was always smiling. The relatives called for peace to return to what they called a “crime-riddled country” and begged for the lawlessness to stop and killers to put down their guns.
In an unrelated killing, relatives of Puresh Ragoonanan claim after his hacked body was found at the home of a friend on Monday night, the friend denied knowing who he was. As a result, police were only able to positively identify his body yesterday when his family visited the Forensic Science Centre.
Speaking with the media yesterday at the centre, Ragoonanan’s brother, Balraj, said the same friend that denied he knew his younger sibling was liming with him from Saturday to Monday night.
Ragoonanan, 25, a pluck shop worker, lived in Congo Trace, Penal Rock Road, a stone throw away from Crawford Trace where his body was found. Police said Crawford Trace resident, Rookmin Archibald, heard screams coming from near her bother's house, approximately 300 metres away and on checking, saw Ragoonanan slouched on a mattress in the back of the house. The murder toll now stands at 113 for the year while for the same period last year the murder toll was 81.
Penal police were contacted and when, Insp Seecharan, Sgt Ryan Ramsingh, Cpl Fareed Khan, Cpl Rudy Seecharan, Cpl Mervyn George, PC Christopher Nanan, PC Ravi Ramdath arrived on the scene, they found Ragoonanan drenched in blood with wounds to his face, head, neck and feet.
Police said several people were interviewed but no one claimed to know him.
Police said the area was bushy and had no electricity. WPC La Rhode of Region III Homicide Bureau is investigating.