Diego man preparing to take a bath killed

The mur­der toll con­tin­ued to climb fol­low­ing the death of a Diego Mar­tin man on Wednes­day.

Eli­jah Williams, 33, of Cizan Trace, Blue Basin Road, was said to have been stand­ing on a river­bank north of his house when two gun­men emerged from the wa­ter and be­gan shoot­ing at him.

Re­ports in­di­cate the vic­tim had been prepar­ing to take a bath at the time.

Williams ran to­wards the back of his house af­ter be­ing hit, where he col­lapsed in some bush­es. The sus­pects ran back in­to the riv­er and lat­er got in­to a sil­ver AD wag­on wait­ing along the near­by road­way.

Rel­a­tives liv­ing near­by who rushed out af­ter hear­ing the gun­shots found Williams bleed­ing from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

He died at the scene.

Eight spent 9 mm shell cas­ings were re­cov­ered by po­lice.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, a 35-year-old sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al crimes was shot by po­lice dur­ing his ar­rest in Point Fortin on Wednes­day.

Po­lice said around 5.30 am, of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Unit went to For­tune Road, Egypt Vil­lage, Point Fortin, af­ter re­ceiv­ing cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion that the sus­pect was at a house in the area.

Up­on see­ing the of­fi­cers, the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly jumped through a win­dow and point­ed an ob­ject re­sem­bling a gun at them. One of the of­fi­cers fired two shots, hit­ting the sus­pect, who fell to the ground. He lat­er got up and ran in­to near­by bush­es.

Po­lice cor­doned off and searched the area, where they found a re­volver con­tain­ing five brass cylin­dri­cal ob­jects at the spot where the sus­pect fell. A search of the house, con­duct­ed in the pres­ence of the sus­pect’s com­mon-law wife, led to the dis­cov­ery of three rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion in­side a black-and-white glove in a chest of draw­ers. She was ar­rest­ed.

With the as­sis­tance of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, a man­hunt was launched, and around 6.45 pm, of­fi­cers found the sus­pect hid­ing in an out­door toi­let at Her­cules Av­enue in Egypt Vil­lage.

The sus­pect, who was bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds to his right fore­arm, was tak­en to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Po­lice said the sus­pect is want­ed for sev­er­al rob­beries and shoot­ing of­fences in the South­ern Di­vi­sion and is ex­pect­ed to be placed on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades. The sus­pect al­so lives at Har­mo­ny Hall, Gas­par­il­lo.

ASP Cor­rie is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.