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At least five patrons who experienced the thrill of the Trinbago Knight Riders defeating the St Lucia Stars in Wednesday night’s Caribbean Premier League T20 opener had their night soured afterwards as thieves raided their vehicles during the match.

Reports stated that thieves smashed the back glasses of four vehicles parked outside the Queen’s Park Oval between Jackson Square and Serpentine Road, leaving with thousands of dollars worth of valuable items, mirrors and headlights.

According to police, a chef who parked his Kia Sportage near the Oval returned to his SUV yesterday morning to find thieves had stolen his passport, keys to his house and culinary tools.

The owner of a Kia Cerato also found his or her car without its pair of headlights, both valued at $30,000 and a battery valued at $1,000. A Nissan Wingroad was also stolen from Serpentine Road.

“Honestly, I thought he was going to pull the trigger.”

So said CNC3 news anchor Khamal Georges yesterday, as he recalled an early morning robbery outside his St James apartment where a gun was pointed to his chest by a bandit.

Luckily, the bandit did not pull the trigger. Instead, the man and an accomplice stole Georges’ Kia Sportage, his phone and other valuables, including the keys to his apartment. It was when Georges asked for the apartment keys the bandit shoved the gun in his chest.

“In my mind, I was saying you are going to get killed for asking for your house keys,” Georges recalled.

Officers of the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) recovered Georges’ vehicle around 10 am at the Bath Street Plannings in Port-of-Spain.

THE KIA Sportage belonging to CNC3 anchor Khamal Georges which was recovered by officers of the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF), five hours after it was stolen from him at gunpoint early Thursday morning, has been stolen again, this time near the Besson Street, Police Station.

According to police, the vehicle went missing around 6.45 pm and they are certain that it was not removed by any officer or Georges. In many car theft cases, the vehicle is sent to Wallerfield where the Special Evidence Recovery Unit is based. That unit is responsible for ballistic testing and fingerprinting.

Police said CCTV footage captured the thief using a key to drive away with the car which was parked on the road near the station as there is insufficient space to park vehicles on the compound.

The victims are 26-year-old Timmy “Hype” Ragopaul, 25-year-old Alika Scipio, 19-year-old Tremaine Paul and 15-year-old Karimah Abdullah.

Ragopaul, a PH taxi driver, from Seventh Avenue, Oropune Gardens, Piarco, and Scipio, an unemployed mother of one from Eastern Quarry, Laventille, were both pronounced dead on the scene, while Paul, of

Maloney Gardens, and Abdullah of Fonde Amandes Road, St Ann’s, were taken to hospital for treatment.

Paul, who was shot in his abdomen and leg, was taken to the Arima District Hospital where he remained warded in a stable condition up to late yesterday.

Abdullah, a student of the Success Laventille Secondary School, was shot in her head and chest and was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope. She remained warded in a critical condition up to late yesterday.

Keyshawn “Boy Boy” Mckenzie yesterday appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court charged with the murders of a Chinese businessman and a 16-year-old school boy, which occurred two months apart.

The 22-year-old Pleasantville accused stood quietly in the Second Court prisoner’s dock as Magistrate Natalie Diop read the charges which alleged he murdered Noah Simmons, 16, and Chen Zhi Zhong, 24.

Simmons, a Form Four student and footballer of Shiva Boys’ College, was at the home of his cousin at Union Park East, Gopaul Lands, Marabella, on May 8 when he got into an argument with a man he knew.

During the altercation, the man pulled out a gun and shot Simmons in the chest. The gunman fired several more shots into the air before running off, police said.

PUT down the guns and turn away from a life of crime.

This was the plea yesterday by residents of Boys Lane, D’Abadie, to warring gangs in their neighbourhood.

Their cries follow two shooting incidents in two weeks, which have claimed the lives of three people.

The victims included a 25-year-old woman and left four others—­including a 15-year-old schoolgirl—recovering from gunshot injuries.

“It is the worse experience of my life to see your child dying in your hand,” sobbed Roopchand Moonisar as he recalled how gunmen shot up their car, killing his daughter and injuring him.

Moonisar, who was discharged from the hospital on Saturday, had no idea why they were attacked, but police believe it was a hit on his daughter Mariana Moonisar, 29, an administrative clerk in Parliament.

The killers failed at their first attempt to kill her on Friday morning when she was heading to work in her car, but came back in the evening when she was returning home.

Moonisar said he usually dropped her to Couva on mornings to take the bus to work and after work he would pick her up in Chaguanas.

According to a police report, around 5.15 pm two men emerged from the bushes near the Esperanza Junction, Couva and opened fire on the car.

The first year of CPL here 47 cars were stolen

Nope. Finally, the residents of Toronto heard some tough love from Premier Doug Ford, the kind of tough love that is sorely needed right about now in this city.

“We’re coming after you. We’re going to catch you and you’re going to end up in jail … If I were you, I’d think twice before you pull out a gun because you’re going to get caught,” Ford said Thursday while announcing $25 million in new funding for Toronto to fight gangs and guns.

Some $18 million of that money will go towards “digital, investigative and analytical resources” to fight drug gangs and gun criminals, although Ford was quick to say that will not involve a return to carding.

Asked what those tools will be, Mayor John Tory’s spokesman Daniela Magisano referred me to the Toronto Police. Spokesman Meaghan Gray would only say that the chief feels their policing efforts must be “focussed and strategic” so the right people can be targeted at the right time.

“These funds will allow us to improve our analytical capabilities, leading to more intelligence-led policing and will allow us to penetrate gun violence,” she said.