September 14, 2015
13-y-o shot dead while heading to school in Trinidad
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Police are searching for the gunman who murdered a 13-year-old school boy as he made his way to school on Tuesday.
Yakini Charles, a first form student of the Tranquility Government School in Belmont, just on the outskirts of the capital, was shot several times.
Media reports said that the boy was walking to school when a car drove up and someone inside the vehicle fired several shots hitting him. He later died in hospital.
Nearly 300 people have been murdered in Trinidad so far this year.
