PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 23, CMC -Police are investigating the murders of three young people after their bodies were found with gunshot wounds at a house in Penal, in South Trinidad.
Police have identified the victims as 17-year-old Jordan Cudjoe Burke, 22-year-old Ishmael Matthews and 21-year-old Roberto Samuel Carlos.
They said that during the early hours on Sunday morning, a resident was awakened by several loud explosions at the two-storey house and upon checking a downstairs bedroom, the occupant discovered the three men lying dead with gunshot wounds.
The police said that they have no motive for the killings and that investigators have observed multiple spent and live 9mm shells in the room where the bodies were found.
This latest round of murders, follows the death Shaquille Layne Samuel, whose body was found along the Eastern Main Road in Sangre Grande, on Sunday.
Police said officers attached to the Eastern Division Task Force received information about a shooting near a bar and on arrival found Samuel lying on the side of the roadway with what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds.
He was taken by police to the Sangre Grande Hospital, where he was treated by medical staff but pronounced dead shortly after.
Police said they had recovered 11 spent 9mm shells at the scene and no motive has yet been established and no arrests have been made.
The killings have taken the country’s murder toll for the year so far to 72. For the corresponding period last year, 88 murders were recorded. Trinidad and Tobago is currently under a state of emergency (SoE) as the authorities seek to curb the killings and other criminal activities across the country.
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