The two women who were in the vehicle when 22-year-old UK national Adrian St John was robbed and killed are now in police protective custody.
Police have detained a 24-year-old man who turned up to give a statement on Monday.
This as news of St John’s murder gained momentum in UK media with The Guardian, UK and BBC News among news organisations which reported the killing.
According to The Guardian UK report, Donovan Miller, a coach and mentor to St John at the Chris Gayle Academy, told the Press Association he was in shock.
“I’m really finding it hard to come to terms with it. How someone could do something like that to such a lovely person,” Miller said.
Miller, in the article, said St John wanted him to support him by accompanying him to the Caribbean and to push hard with his cricket. “He’s just finished his degree at university which we supported him through as well,” he said.
Miller reportedly said one of the academy members broke the news to him in a phone call on Monday.
He said Gayle was one of the first people he rang as he (Gayle) knew St John “quite well.”
Gayle in a tweet on Monday described the murder of the promising British cricketer, as “such sad news.”
St John was the captain of the Chris Gayle Academy in London, which was opened in 2013 to “improve access to good quality education, training and employment for at risk young people in Jamaica and the UK.”
Yesterday, homicide detectives, along with officers of the St Joseph Police Station, returned to the crime scene yesterday with sniffer dogs hoping to retrieve further evidence.
Officers also distributed flyers in the nearby squatting community asking the public for assistance.
According to police, a man went to the St Joseph Police Station on Monday to give a statement in relation to St John’s killing. The man, police said, gave a detailed description of the men who shot the 22-year-old aspiring West Indian cricketer.
The description given by the suspect, police said, matched the man making the report and he was detained for further questioning. He will be placed on an identification parade today.
According to police, around 8.30 pm, St John went to Upper Gordon Street, Mt D’Or, to pick up a male relative of two female passengers when he was robbed.
Police said as St John was leaving the poorly lit area, two men with T-shirts covering their faces approached and robbed the two women and St John of cash and other valuables.
They then told St John to drive off. As he was doing so one of the men fired a single shot in the direction of the car, hitting him in the head.
One of the women steered the vehicle to the Eastern Main Road and flagged down a passing police car. St John was taken to hospital where he died while being treated.
Head of the Political and Economic Team at the British High Commission, Beatrice Rose, in an email response to the T&T Guardian yesterday said:
“We are providing support to the family of a British national who died in Trinidad on 10 April and remain in close contact with the local authorities. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.”
The High Commission has not updated their advisory to T&T following St John’s murder.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday, St John's cousin, Leandra Alexander, said they were not sure as to what their next move would be in terms of funeral arrangements, whether the burial would take place here in T&T or the body be flown back to London.