Man wanted for home invasion killed in police shooting

A man be­lieved to be want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion and rob­bery in­ves­ti­ga­tion was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Ste Madeleine ear­ly this morn­ing.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Mikael Isa­iah Lewis of Corinth Hills.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 3 am on Oc­to­ber 23, af­ter of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that two armed men had at­tempt­ed to rob an in­di­vid­ual but were un­suc­cess­ful be­fore flee­ing the scene.

The of­fi­cers were trav­el­ling east along Hi­bis­cus Dri­ve, San Fer­nan­do, when two men ap­proached them and re­port­ed the at­tempt­ed rob­bery. The in­for­mants re­port­ed­ly in­di­cat­ed that the sus­pects were from Corinth Hills.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to the area and, while trav­el­ling north along Alexan­dra Lane, saw a man on the low­er stair­case who matched the de­scrip­tion of one of the sus­pects.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, when of­fi­cers called out to the man, he ran up the stairs while hold­ing his waist. Of­fi­cers pur­sued him and or­dered him to stop.

At the top of the stair­case, the man al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at the of­fi­cers and re­fused re­peat­ed com­mands to drop it.

Three of­fi­cers then dis­charged their ser­vice pis­tols.

The man fell to the ground, and an ob­ject be­lieved to be a firearm fell from his hand. Of­fi­cers se­cured the ob­ject and found that the man was in­jured but still show­ing signs of life.

He was tak­en in a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was treat­ed by med­ical per­son­nel. How­ev­er, he was pro­nounced dead at about 3.46 am.

The TTPS said po­lice records in­di­cat­ed that Lewis was want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion and rob­bery in­ves­ti­ga­tion in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the shoot­ing are con­tin­u­ing, in­clud­ing pos­si­ble links to oth­er rob­bery, home in­va­sion and firearm re­lat­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The an­ti crime ex­er­cise fo­cused on de­tect­ing and sup­press­ing firearm re­lat­ed of­fences, rob­beries and home in­va­sions. It was con­duct­ed un­der the lead­er­ship of se­nior of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Hospedales, Su­per­in­ten­dent Bertie and Woman Su­per­in­ten­dent Bridglal.