Woman lured outside St Joseph home and shot dead

SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A 44-year-old woman from St Joseph was shot dead af­ter be­ing lured out­side her home on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said Tri­cia Ma­haraj, a land­la­dy, was at her home at Mungia Trace, River­side Road, around 3:35 pm when a gold-coloured Ti­i­da sedan pulled up out­side.

She re­port­ed­ly re­ceived a call from some­one claim­ing to be sell­ing a ve­hi­cle, who told her he was out­side her home.

Ma­haraj then went out­side, where a gun­man ex­it­ed the car and shot her sev­er­al times.

The at­tack­er was seen re­turn­ing to the back seat of the car be­fore it sped off.

One of Ma­haraj’s rel­a­tives heard the gun­fire and on check­ing, found her bleed­ing.

He took her to hos­pi­tal, where she was de­clared dead short­ly af­ter.

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.