T&T Contractor lured to a fake job, then shot

T&T Contractor lured to a fake job, then shot

A businessman is in serious condition at the hospital with gunshot wounds after he was lured to San Fernando for a fake job.

Rasheed Rajbally, 43, who owns a wrecking business, went to Bertrand Street in Mon Repos around 7.45 pm on Monday after a man contacted him on the phone about picking up a truck. However, he met the owner of the truck who told him he did not contact him or make any arrangements for his truck to be towed.

While they were speaking, a man approached with a gun pointed at Rajbally and shouted, "Who is Johnson?” He shot him in his right shoulder and the right side of his lower abdomen. As Rajbally fell to the ground, the gunman ran off, escaping through a track between Bertrand Street and Fonrose Street. He was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital. Police recovered two live rounds of 9 mm ammunition and three spent 9 mm shells.

Suspect in Palmiste home invasion wounded

One of five men who broke into a house in Palmiste, on the outskirts of San Fernando, early on Wednesday and beat an elderly woman has been hospitalised. Another victim, a policeman, shot him during a confrontation.

The police also recovered one of the intruders' guns.

Up to midday on Wednesday, the search was ongoing for the four other suspects, said to be from Aranguez.They repeatedly hit a 73-year-old woman as well as a male relative, a police constable in his 20s.
Newsday was told the men had been driving around the area, targeting homes they believed might contain valuables.

Teen's body found buried at Valsayn House of Horrors

The police are trying to ascertain the identity of the remains found buried in the backyard of a house in Valsayn on Tuesday.

But it is believed the bones were that of 18-year-old Hannah Mathura, who was never reported missing. The remains were said to have been buried near a tree in a shallow grave behind the family home in Butu Road, South Valsayn, in 2017.

The police were tipped off by a male relative, who showed them the location of the grave. An excavator was used to dig up the body.
Eight other children were found locked in the house at the time. A male relative who police believe was responsible for burying the teen's body was on the run up until press time.

Armed bandits kidnap, rob four Vessigny store workers

Armed bandits kidnapped, beat and robbed four store employees on March 11.

Police said the four workers locked up the St Anthony's Convenience Store in Vessigny Village, La Brea, around 7 pm and were about to get into a black Kia Rio car when they were approached by five men wearing dark clothing and whose faces were covered.

The men had got out of a white AD wagon. Three of them had guns and announced a robbery.
One of the robbers drove off in the Kia Rio and the three female and one male worker were forced into the white AD wagon and taken to an abandoned house at Grove Park, Oropouche.

The assailants then punched one of the victims in the face, stealing her phone, a tablet and a bunch of keys. The men then took phones, money and jewellery from the other victims and tied them up with tie straps before escaping.

Mayaro murder victim's family devastated

Relatives of Dion Kyeon Mendoza say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was executed along with three men in a forested area in Mayaro in the morning on March 11.
Mendoza, 29, brothers Jeremiah George, 20 and Marcus Buddy, 37, and their father Buddy George, 59, were shot dead by men in police uniforms at an agricultural camp at Basil Trace, Bristol Village, Mayaro. Two women and a one-year-old child were also in the camp but escaped with their lives.

Speaking to Newsday at the Forensic Science Centre on March 12, Mendoza’s relatives described him as a hard worker who loved agriculture.

One relative said Mendoza was enrolled in the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries: Youth Fast Track Agricultural Finance Support Programme.

Barrackpore woman, 36, hospitalized after shooting

A 36-year-old housewife from the Barrackpore district is in stable condition at hospital after gunmen shot her outside her family’s home in the afternoon on March 12.

Paige Juman, of Platanite Trace, had emergency surgery at the San Fernando General Hospital on March 12.
The police said shortly before 4 pm on March 12, Juman was sitting at the front of her home with a male relative nearby. A car pulled up and stopped, and the occupants started shooting, hitting Juman several times. She had injuries to her legs and abdomen.

The car drove off.

In reply to sgtdjones

And de dumbass Growley says the UNC is too preoccupied with crime....

Only a big shot PM and his family with full security detail 24 /7 would not be preoccupied with crime

This skunt has lost touch with a defenceless population

In reply to Narper

Narps ...

If you keep this up you will be classified as I am ...

Someone who left T&T and now hates T&T...