Second suspect in police-involved double killing from Toco

STEPHON NICHOLAS

GML To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

The sec­ond sus­pect in the po­lice-in­volved killings on Thurs­day night in To­ba­go is a Trinida­di­an, a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cial has re­vealed.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hil Kirk on Sat­ur­day said no rel­a­tive has yet pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied the body. How­ev­er, he said re­li­able sources have con­firmed the sus­pect is from To­co.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, de­ceased sus­pect Ja­mal Clarke, 24, was a pas­sen­ger in a sil­ver Toy­ota Aqua dri­ving along Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, around 7pm, when po­lice in­ter­cept­ed the ve­hi­cle. As of­fi­cers ap­proached the ve­hi­cle, they were al­leged­ly met with gun­fire. They fired back, hit­ting both oc­cu­pants.

Clarke, who tried to ex­it the ve­hi­cle dur­ing the ex­change, was shot mul­ti­ple times and died at the scene. The sec­ond sus­pect was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal where he died.

Kirk has as­sured rel­a­tives of the de­ceased that an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion will be con­duct­ed. He al­so ex­pressed con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies of the de­ceased.

A po­lice of­fi­cer, who was shot dur­ing the ex­change, was re­port­ed to be in sta­ble con­di­tion.