PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 4, CMC – Police Friday shot and killed two Venezuelan nationals in Tableland, a village in Princes Town, in south-Central Trinidad.
Police said the men, identified as Onan Jose Tovar Harreaza, 37, and Dionnys Gregorio Gonzalez, 29, were armed with a firearm and a Chinese chopper.
According to the police around 5.30 am (local time), a team of officers of the Southern Division Task Force were conducting an intelligence-led operation that two men were in possession of firearms and were facilitating the sale of them.
The report said the officers announced themselves by shouting “Police” and entered a small house where one of the men pointed a firearm at the officers.
It said the officers in keeping with the Use of Force policy saw their lives were in imminent danger and discharged their Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)-issued firearms at the suspect.
The report said that a second man lunged towards the officers with a Chinese chopper and the officers neutralised the suspect in keeping with the Use of Force Policy.
The two men were taken to the Princes Town District Health Facility where they were pronounced dead upon arrival. The police said that they recovered a chrome revolver and ammunition at the scene of the shooting.
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