Two friends were gunned down in Belmont yesterday afternoon in what police described as a reprisal shooting. According to police, the two young men were killed around 2.20 pm as they sat in a car at the corner of Erthig Road and Cazabon Lane, Belmont.
The two, Amit Ramlogan, 18, of Davis Street, Belmont, and Kareem Turton, 28, were outside Turton’s home in a white Nissan B-14 belonging to a relative of Ramlogan’s when gunmen riddled the car with bullets from a high-powered rifle. Police said residents of Erthig Road heard the gunshots and later found the two men dead.
Officers of the Belmont Police Station along with PC Ramroop and Cpl Seecharan of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations responded to the shootings.
Police said last week a relative of Ramlogan’s was reported to have shot at a group of men. The intended targets survived and are believed to have pounced on the duo thinking it was Ramlogan’s relative, since the teen was driving the relative’s car.
In an unrelated incident, Homicide detectives are investigating the murder of a man early yesterday morning in the St Joseph area. The man, who up to late yesterday was not identified, was found around 2 am by limers of Red Light Bar, along the Eastern Main Road, with gunshot wounds to his body.
Police said the patrons heard gunshots and scampered. After the shooting the limers found the body of a man of African descent face down on the roadway.
A Moruga man was also beaten to death in his hometown early yesterday morning. (See Page A8).
The murders this weekend have taken the toll to 296 for the year, according to the Homicide Bureau of Investigations.
Meanwhile, police said an autopsy would be done on the body of a San Juan man who died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex three weeks after being warded following a severe beating.
According to police, Felix “Rickie” Singh was found along Hunte Street, San Juan, a short distance from his home on August 18, around 2 am. Singh was taken to the hospital where he had been warded ever since. Singh died early Friday morning. Police officers believe that he died as a result of injuries from the beating he sustained. The autopsy will determine whether Singh’s death should be classified as a murder. (See Page A8)