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Police investigating murder of Port of Spain teenager

Police investigating murder of Port of Spain teen. Image credit: Herbert Law Firm
Police investigating murder of Port of Spain teen. Image credit: Herbert Law Firm

Trinidad and Tobago: Another case of teenage crime has been reported on the island, with a 17-year-old male victim losing his life in a targeted shooting in the town of Port of Spain. The incident of the fatal attack on the young victim was recorded along George Street Plannings on the morning of Friday, July 19, at around 06:00.

The teenage victim who was the victim of the deadly shooting and lost his life in Port of Spain was not a local resident of the capital. The young victim is reported to be in his late teens and is identified by his documented name, Jerome Joseph. Jerome Joseph was also known to the public as G I.

The reports state that the victim, Jerome Joseph, was a resident of Diego Martin, Trinidad, who lived with his family at his home in Patna Village. The deceased victim was in the capital of the twin-island nation at his relatives’ home at George Street Plannings in the city, where the life-saving incident took place that day.

According to the available details about the fatal shooting of a teenager in Port of Spain, the victim was shot dead on the day he was in the area. While the young victim was alone, he was ambushed and attacked, which led to his death. The unexpected shooting was heard by the residents, who were alerted and found the teenager injured at the scene.

The incident was not witnessed by anyone, so no details have been gathered about how the incident occurred. The killer of the victim, a Port of Spain teenager, is not yet suspected in the early stages of the investigation. It has also not been confirmed whether the crime of shooting was carried out by one person or multiple criminals.

At around 06:00 hours, the incident was witnessed and the crime was reported to the police. The complaint of the shooting of a teenager in Port of Spain was recorded by the police authority and the charges were filed. The case was taken over by the police officers of the Port of Spain Division and the Homicide Bureau who are investigating the murder of a teenager.

The murder of a teenager in Port of Spain is the second such case recorded in the country in recent days. The last case was reported on Friday, July 12, where a 19-year-old male victim named Jaheim Shallow of Rigsby Street was shot by the thugs in Belmont. A 29-year-old victim named Hasani Bonas was also murdered with a teenager on the same day along Agostini Street.

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