IN the space of just a few hours between Saturday night and yesterday morning, killers snuffed out the lives of three more men, one of whom was found decapitated at the Santa Rosa Race Track in Arima.
The man’s head was found by a passer-by several metres from his body around 6.15 a.m. along the southern side of the race track.
The man alerted police. Upon their arrival, the officers searched the area and found the body about 50 metres away from the head.
Up to press time last night the man remained unidentified. He was described as being of East Indian descent and appeared to be in his early 30s.
The other two incidents, which have carried the country’s murder toll for the year so far to 305, took place in the Carapo and Barataria areas under similar circumstances. The comparable toll for the period last year was 286.
In the Carapo incident, police said, around 10.30 p.m. on Saturday, Ishmael Lewis, 41, was at his George Clarke Road home in the company of another man and a woman, when they heard male voices at the front door saying “police!”
Immediately after, two masked men entered the house, ordered the woman into one of the bedrooms before shooting Lewis several times then escaping. The other man was also left unhurt, said police.
Following this, officers said the woman ran from the house and alerted neighbours as to what had happened before the police were called in. Officers of the Region II Homicide Bureau of Investigations based at the Arouca Police Station visited the scene and carried out enquiries.
The Barataria incident took place around 4 a.m. yesterday, police said. They said the victim, Dale Augustus, 28, of Seventh Avenue, Malick, was also in the company of another man and a woman when three masked men entered the house and shot Augustus to death in a bedroom, leaving the woman and other man unhurt.
The shooters then escaped before officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force, San Juan and Barataria police officers and homicide detectives visited the scene.
Homicide officers are continuing investigations into all three incidents.