Police are searching for a motive in the killing of a 22-year-old small businessman in Enterprise, Chaguanas, yesterday.
According to police reports, around 2.15 pm Aamil Joseph, 22, of Rainbow Crescent, Circular Drive, Enterprise, was riding a bicycle north along Phyllis Lane Extension, Enterprise Street, Enterprise, when gunshots were heard. Joseph, who had just attended Islamic prayers, Juma’h, was later found dead on the roadway, still clutching his bicycle.
His killing took the murder toll to 122 for the year.
Meanwhile in an unrelated incident, a 58-year-old man was found murdered not to far from his Cascade home on Thursday morning.
According to police reports, residents of Upper Hislop Trace, Cascade, made a report of a stench in the area. When officers arrived they followed the scent to a bushy area where they Donaldson Mottley dead. Police said he had stab wounds about the body, his throat was cut and the right side of his head was bashed in. Police believe a cutlass was used in the attack but have no motive for the killing.
Police said Mottley was a former murder accused who faced three trials before being released.
Investigations into both murders are continuing and police are urging anyone with information or any other crime to pass the information on to them.