Convict shot dead in Point Fortin

A few months af­ter com­ing out of prison, a 48-year-old man was shot dead in Point Fortin in the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Ren­nie Noel, of E Street, Point Fortin.

Po­lice said that around 4.20 am, of­fi­cers re­ceived a re­port from the Com­mand Cen­tre about a man ly­ing mo­tion­less in the vicin­i­ty of a fast-food es­tab­lish­ment.

Of­fi­cers from the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed and found Noel ly­ing on the ground with what ap­peared to be blood around his head.

Po­lice al­so found four ap­par­ent spent 9mm shells and two live rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion near his body.

Po­lice sources said 20 years ago, Noel was ac­cused of set­ting two peo­ple on fire in­side a car. He had served time in prison and came out re­cent­ly.

The Point Fortin Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice were asked to re­view CCTV footage from the area as part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Of­fi­cers as­signed to Homi­cide Re­gion Three, along with a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer, sub­se­quent­ly vis­it­ed the scene. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

—RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA