Teen shot dead by soldier in Fyzabad raid

Kevon Felmine

A 19-year-old man was shot dead by a sol­dier dur­ing a po­lice raid at his Fyz­abad home on Wednes­day af­ter­noon af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at mem­bers of the search team.

The de­ceased was iden­ti­fied as Aaron An­der­son of Del­hi Road, Fyz­abad.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, of­fi­cers of the Home In­va­sion Team, ac­com­pa­nied by mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF), went to An­der­son's home around 4.27 pm to ex­e­cute a search war­rant for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion.

Of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly took up po­si­tions around the house while a breach team en­tered. Po­lice said they en­coun­tered An­der­son up­stairs, where he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at them.

Fear­ing for their lives, a TTDF sergeant fired one round from his G36 ri­fle, strik­ing An­der­son.

The firearm re­port­ed­ly fell from An­der­son's hand. Of­fi­cers then ob­served that he had suf­fered a head in­jury and re­cov­ered a loaded Glock pis­tol.

An­der­son was tak­en to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead at 5.06 pm af­ter be­ing at­tend­ed to by Dr Dipc­hand.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered a Glock 19 pis­tol, a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 15 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and a spent 5.56mm shell.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.