A 25-year-old man from Morvant was killed in a drive-by shooting in Laventille yesterday afternoon.
According to reports, at around 12.30 pm Brandon “Monkey” Raymond, of Chinapoo, Morvant, was walking near to Mulrain Trace, Picton Road, Laventille, when a white Nissan B15 pulled alongside him. The front seat passenger shot Raymond several times without coming out of the vehicle, which sped off.
Raymond was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital by police officers who responded to reports of the shooting. He died while undergoing emergency surgery.
Homicide detectives had not established a motive for Raymond’s murder up to late yesterday, but said he was known to police.
Raymond’s killing raised the murder toll for 2017 to 494. There was a seven per cent increase in murders from 2016 when 462 murders were recorded.
Detectives of the Region One Homicide Bureau are continuing investigations.