Cops say PoS labourer’s murder gang-related

The mur­der of a Port-of-Spain man on Sun­day night, me­tres away from the Dun­can Street Po­lice Post, has been la­belled a gang- re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as labour­er Hakim “Da­da Sixx” O’Brien, 25, of Rudolph Charles Link Road, Laven­tille; and Lovell Place, East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain.

The shoot­ing around 6:15 pm al­so left a 28-year-old man of Clifton Street, Leau Place Laven­tille, nurs­ing in­juries at hos­pi­tal. A 21-year-old man who was with the oth­er two men es­caped un­harmed.

Of­fi­cers on du­ty at the Dun­can Street Po­lice Post heard loud ex­plo­sions near Prince and Dun­can Streets on Sun­day and ar­rived to find O’Brien ly­ing on the road in a pool of blood.

Re­ports in­di­cate O’Brien had been dri­ving his black Kia Cer­a­to east along Prince Street, with two oth­er peo­ple in­side, when their car was blocked by the gun­men’s black Suzu­ki Vi­tara as they at­tempt­ed to turn on­to Pic­cadil­ly Street.

O’Brien at­tempt­ed to re­verse and crashed in­to the bridge at the cor­ner of Prince and Pic­cadil­ly Streets. He ran out the ve­hi­cle in an at­tempt to es­cape but was pur­sued by four as­sailants who opened fire on him.

The sus­pects then es­cape on foot along Pic­cadil­ly Street be­fore turn­ing on­to Jack­son Place and dis­ap­pear­ing be­hind the Man­go Rose Apart­ments. Their ve­hi­cle was found aban­doned at the cor­ner of Pic­cadil­ly and Prince Streets.

Of­fi­cers re­cov­ered an iPhone and one ri­fle with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 20 rounds of 7.62 cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion in the back seat of the ve­hi­cle.

A video cap­tured by a res­i­dent’s pri­vate home se­cu­ri­ty cam­era showed sev­er­al of the sus­pects run­ning away from the scene.

This lat­est killing pushed the toll for the year to 32.