A taxi driver was murdered and his friend injured in a drive-by shooting in San Juan on Saturday night.
Jemel Nicholson, 28, was killed along Boundary Road, Aranguez, around 11 pm. According to reports, residents reported hearing several gunshots before finding Nicholson and an unidentified friend lying on the road with gunshot wounds. The men were taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where Nicholson was pronounced dead. His friend remained warded in a critical condition last night.
The shooting took place hours after Aranguez residents of the community joined with Building T&T for its candle-light anti-crime walk.
Meanwhile, five east Port-of-Spain residents who were wounded in a drive-by shooting on Friday evening remain warded in hospital.
Police said around 6 pm, Andy Huggins, 21, Anthony Raymond, 55, Pamela Lee, 34, Sheldon Jemont, 27, Joel Williams, 20 and 28-year-old Isaiah Sanchez were liming with fellow residents at the St Paul Street Housing Development in East Dry River, when a vehicle with three occupants stopped alongside them and two occupants got out and began shooting indiscriminately at the group. The shooters then returned to the vehicle and escaped.
Police from the nearby Besson Street Police Station responded and took the victims to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital for treatment.
Sanchez, a father of one, succumbed to his injuries. Investigators said yesterday that Sanchez was known to police and they believe he was the target.
The car the gunmen used was later found abandoned at Block 8, Laventille, with the magazine of a high-powered rifle inside.
No one was arrested for either shooting up to late yesterday.