Only one gun recovered after Buccoo shootout leaves two dead

STEPHON NICHOLAS

GML To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

Po­lice have con­firmed that on­ly one gun was re­cov­ered at the scene fol­low­ing last night’s po­lice shootout at Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, which left two sus­pects dead.

Po­lice say Ja­mal Clarke, 24, and an­oth­er man were in a sil­ver Aqua when of­fi­cers, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, in­ter­cept­ed the ve­hi­cle.

Po­lice said shots were fired at them and, in keep­ing with use of force pol­i­cy, they re­turned fire. Both oc­cu­pants of the Aqua were hit.

Clarke died at the scene, while the dri­ver was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough hos­pi­tal, where he lat­er died.

Po­lice have not re­leased the iden­ti­ty of the sec­ond sus­pect, as his rel­a­tives have not yet iden­ti­fied his body.

An of­fi­cer who was in­jured in the ex­change was hos­pi­talised overnight but is ex­pect­ed to be re­leased.