Gunmen kill T&T police officer, solider
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago police were searching Tuesday for the gunmen that shot and killed a police officer and a member of the Defence Force in separate incidents.
Police said that police constable Jason John, who was assigned to the Court and Process Division of the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court, was killed by a gunman with a sub-machine gun, as he spoke with his wife on a telephone near his home in Arouca, east of here.
In the other incident, Corporal Jerry Leacock of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) was shot in the chest after he confronted four men who broke into his home at Wallerfield in Arima, east of here, early Tuesday morning.
The gunmen later escaped in the soldier’s vehicle.
So far more than 160 people have been killed this year.
