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Investigators meet with DPP today over Joshua Samaroo shooting

20 May 2026
This content originally appeared on Trinidad Guardian.
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In­ves­ti­ga­tors lead­ing the probe in­to the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo are sched­uled to meet with the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions to­day.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials con­firmed the 1pm ap­point­ment, hours af­ter the file was com­plet­ed and hand­ed over to the DPP, Roger Gas­pard, Se­nior Coun­sel.

It has been al­most four months since Sama­roo was killed by po­lice dur­ing a dra­mat­ic con­fronta­tion in St Au­gus­tine, in an in­ci­dent that sparked pub­lic out­rage and heaped wide­spread crit­i­cism on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro in­di­cat­ed on March 25 that the TTPS in­ves­ti­ga­tion had been com­plet­ed, but said one fi­nal doc­u­ment was still need­ed be­fore the file could have been for­ward­ed to the DPP.

Sama­roo, 31, was shot mul­ti­ple times by po­lice of­fi­cers on Jan­u­ary 20 at the cor­ner of Bassie Street Ex­ten­sion and Dook­iesingh Street in St Au­gus­tine.

A video record­ing that lat­er sur­faced al­leged­ly showed the fa­ther of two hold­ing his hands out­side the ve­hi­cle win­dow in an ap­par­ent sign of sur­ren­der when of­fi­cers opened fire.

Sama­roo and Sealy were both rushed to hos­pi­tal, where Sama­roo was pro­nounced dead.

Sealy, 24, a hair­dress­er and moth­er of one, un­der­went treat­ment and re­mained ward­ed.

She has since been un­able to walk and con­tin­ues to un­der­go dai­ly phys­i­cal ther­a­py.