A 30-year-old Arouca man has been arrested following the stabbing death of a 49-year-old man outside a bar on Monday night, in what police believe was an argument over a woman.
Police said the suspect was found hiding in his bedroom hours after the stabbing took place.
According to police, David De Lancy, of Kandahar Village, Five Rivers, Arouca, was liming with his common-law wife at the Pavillion Recreation Club, which is next to the Arouca Police Station, around 10.30 pm, when he was confronted by the suspect as he left the club. Police said the two men began arguing, reportedly over the victim’s wife, and De Lancy was stabbed in his chest. He fell on a car parked nearby where he died. The suspect then fled the scene.
Around 2 am, Sgt Joseph led a team of officers from Arouca CID to the First Street, Arouca, home of the suspect, who was found crouched behind a wardrobe. He was arrested but before being taken to the station he carried officers to a bushy area where they recovered his bloodied T-shirt.
In an unrelated incident, a Diego Martin man died moments after being rescued in a forested area overlooking Macqueripe on Monday, almost a day after he had been shot in the abdomen and left for dead.
Police said Selwyn Gaff went with four men into the forest around 12.30 pm Sunday. Police are unsure what happened while there, but only four men came back out of the forest around 6 pm. One of the men contacted police on Monday morning telling them of what had happened the day before. Police said the man claimed he waited until Monday to report what happened because of the terrain and poor lighting. A search party with civilians, regiment officers, police and fire service officers went into the bushes Monday afternoon and found Gaff still alive. He was carried out of the forest on a makeshift stretcher and taken to the St James Medical Facility, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Gaff, 28, lived at Savannah Road, 1, Diego Martin.
The two killings plus another in South Trinidad have pushed the murder toll to 207 for the year.
Included in the toll is the murder of drug addict Anthony “Bones” Paul, 51 who was found partially burnt in the pavilion of the Clayton Ince Recreation Ground in Maloney last Friday. Police only classified his death as a murder on Monday following his post mortem, which revealed he died from carbon monoxide poisoning.