Police officers led by Insp Ramkissoon on the scene of the murder at corner of Sawmill Trace and Old Valencia Road.

Po­lice were called out on Sat­ur­day af­ter a body with gun­shot wounds was seen ly­ing in a pool of blood at the cor­ner of Sawmill Trace and Old Va­len­cia Road.

Around 6:45 am, po­lice of­fi­cers from San­gre Grande and Va­len­cia re­spond­ed to the re­port.

Po­lice of­fi­cers led by In­sp Ramkissoon and in­clud­ing WC­pl Rique, PC Samuel, CSI of­fi­cers PC Ali and WPC Por­tel along with Sgt Davis, Cpl Ram­di­al and WPC Mo­hammed of Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 2 went to the scene.

On ar­rival, they found the body of a man of African de­scent dressed in a black jer­sey, black pants and a pair of black slip­pers. There were sev­er­al gun­shot wounds to the head. The de­ceased could be in his late 30s. The body re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to late Sat­ur­day.

The scene was processed by homi­cide of­fi­cers, who found three spent shells.

Po­lice said the killing could have tak­en place about two hours be­fore the body was dis­cov­ered.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Bel­grave viewed the body and or­dered it be re­moved to the San­gre Grande mor­tu­ary, from where it will be tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre to­mor­row for an au­top­sy.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers at­tached to Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 2 are con­tin­u­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.    

This is the sec­ond uniden­ti­fied body to be found with gun­shot wounds in the East­ern Di­vi­sion.

On Fri­day morn­ing the body of a man of African de­scent was found with what ap­pears to be gun­shot wounds at Ja­mun Trace, Madoos­ingh Dri­ve, Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande.

His body was seen ly­ing across a curb and slip­per drain about five feet from a white Hyundai Ac­cent reg­is­tra­tion PDJ 2774.

Po­lice re­ports stat­ed that the ve­hi­cle was a rental from San Fer­nan­do. The body was viewed by Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Trim and or­dered to be re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James for an au­top­sy.

Vis­it­ing the scene were Asp Revnales, Ag Sgt Mo­hammed, Ag Cpl Os­una, PCs Ram­dath, Ra­jku­mar, Thomas, Ramd­hanie, WPCs Castil­lo and Bap­tiste.

Po­lice are call­ing on mem­bers of the pub­lic to as­sist them in iden­ti­fy­ing the bod­ies.

You can con­tact the San­gre Grande po­lice at 668-2444 or 691 0133.    

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Photos submitted by Garvin Warwick (Asst. Coach).

Photos submitted by Garvin Warwick (Asst. Coach).

Dr Kim Johnson behind the camera.

Dr Kim Johnson behind the camera.

Nicola Young Photo: Stephen Doobal Creative Direction: Richard Young

Nicola Young Photo: Stephen Doobal Creative Direction: Richard Young

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