Tobago man shot dead by police

Stephon Nicholas

A To­ba­go man has been shot and killed by po­lice fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion near Pa­tience Hill on Wednes­day night.

Po­lice said Hasani Bobb was dri­ving a Nis­san Ti­i­da when of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed the ve­hi­cle.

Bobb was one of two sus­pects in the rob­bery of a po­lice of­fi­cer at Pi­geon Point last week, dur­ing which the of­fi­cer's firearm was re­port­ed­ly stolen.

Snr Supt Rod­hil Kirk said Bobb al­leged­ly point­ed a gun at of­fi­cers and ig­nored com­mands to drop the weapon.

Kirk said of­fi­cers, fear­ing for their lives, shot Bobb in keep­ing with the po­lice use-of-force pol­i­cy.

Bobb was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he suc­cumbed to his in­juries.

Kirk con­firmed that two firearms were re­cov­ered at the scene, in­clud­ing the weapon re­port­ed stolen from the of­fi­cer.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent.