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8 people killed bloodbath in T&T Overnight

There was a bloody start to the weekend after eight people were killed and two wounded in incidents in Port-of-Spain, Arima, Sangre Grande and San Fernando.
The murders of the six men and two women occurred between 4 pm on Friday and 11 am yesterday, with four occurring in the Port-of-Spain district.
A three-year-old was injured in the shooting spree.

In the first incident around 4 pm Friday in Gonzales, gunmen opened fire on Hasani Bonas and Jaheim Charlos at Agostini Street. This brought the number of men murdered in that area to eight in just the last five weeks.Bonas and Charlos were shot several times as they stood on the street.
Almost five hours later, three armed men came out of a vehicle and went on a rampage at the corner of Piccadilly and Duke Streets, Port-of-Spain, killing Jemerc Fonrose, 20, and Kerwin Mc Leod, 44, who were standing on the pavement in Mango Rose. Also shot was Donald Singh, 66, who had to seek medical attention.

Fonrose, a porter at Holiday Foods, was killed when he went to purchase pork and fries at a food stall a short distance from his home.
An hour later, police responded to reports of a shooting at the back of a woman’s house at Foster Road, Sangre Grande. At the scene they found Shawn Nigel George, 36, lying motionless with two bullet wounds to his chest. Around 3.50 am yesterday, construction worker Dwayne Richardson, 35, was found in a pool of blood at his Maturita Trace, Arima, home. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the upper part of his body while his girlfriend, Latoya Voisin, 31, a YTEPP student, was found dead on a bed.
The last shooting involved businesswoman Carissa Ramrattan who was killed near the compound of the Toyota car dealership in South Park, San Fernando.

Missing TT RideShare driver found dead in forest

His family’s prayers and offer of a reward for the safe return of the TT RideShare driver were all in vain as his bloated corpse was found in the Penal forest yesterday.
The discovery was made after searches by Hunters Search and Rescue (HSR), the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, relatives, friends and Charles’ colleagues from Trinidad Systems Limited.
Searches focused on an area off Ramlal Trace Extension, where Charles, 32, of Indian Walk, Moruga, dropped off a passenger before he went missing last Tuesday.

HSR Captain Vallence Rambharat said the search began around 8 am in the hilly forested terrain. As they ascended a hill around 9.20 am, they found a corpse with clothes similar to what Charles was wearing when he went missing.Police said the body was clad in a grey polo shirt, long blue jeans, black socks and blue slippers with the hands bound in front with tie straps

Farmer beaten and robbed in Sangre Grande

A 58-year-old farmer of Rampersad Trace, Vega De Oropouche, Sangre Grande was tied up, beaten, placed on the ground then robbed of his vehicle, cash, and phone at gunpoint on Friday night.
Police reported around 10:30 pm, Richardson Howard was at his garden asleep in a shed when he was awoken by the sound of a vehicle approaching his shed.

He then heard a male voice call out to him asking for a cigarette to which he responded by telling the person to come for it. A male figure then entered his shed but because of the poor lighting conditions, he was unable to see the person's face. The male figure then pointed a silver-coloured object resembling that of a firearm and made him lie on the ground where he was tied up.

The victim heard what sounded like three different male voices and they demanded that he hand over his money and the keys to his white Isuzu pick-up

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....Latest...now 9 killed

Murdered man discovered at daybreak

The Bronte Road, which links the M-1 Ring Road, Ste Madeleine to Cedar Hill, Princes Town, is the scene of Trinidad’s latest murder.
At daybreak today, someone using the road came upon the body of a man curled up on the roadway.
The man had been shot. Police say he was likely killed at the scene.

The homicide toll for the year is at least 316.

Brothers selling doubles attacked in Port of Spain

TWO BROTHERS selling doubles were attacked by two men, resulting in one brother being stabbed several times in the back as he fought off his assailants at their Frederick Street shop on July 13.
The victim's father spoke with Newsday and identified one son as Steven. He said the pair had opened their shop about half an hour before the attempted 2 am robbery.

"It was quiet, Saturday mornings are usually quiet. My youngest son was eating a doubles and Steven had his back turned when the two men walked in."
The men demanded cash and told Steven to hand over his wallet before pulling out a knife and putting it to his neck. Steven's younger brother intervened, leading to a scuffle.

"My younger son rushed the man and grabbed the knife. He has cuts on his fingers and the palms of his hands. They flung him onto the doubles cooler and he and the doubles fell onto the pavement," the father said.

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3 gunned down on Pizza Boys parking lot

Police were called to the Cunupia Branch of Pizza Boys and Rituals coffee shop this afternoon.
This after gunmen opened fire on a group of men in a car parked outside.
Two men died in the car, a silver Subaru Impreza.

The man in the rear seat died from a bullet to the head, and holding a cigarette.

The second man died in the front passenger seat.
A third died on the ground outside.
Several bullets smashed the front glass of the businesses.