TTPS: Stolen police gun found on man killed in Tobago shooting

A firearm re­port­ed­ly stolen from a po­lice of­fi­cer dur­ing a rob­bery at Pi­geon Point last week was found on a man shot and killed by po­lice in Pa­tience Hill, To­ba­go, on Wednes­day night.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said the Sig Sauer pis­tol, which bore po­lice mark­ings and was fit­ted with a mag­a­zine, was found con­cealed in the waist­band of Hasani Bobb’s trousers.

Bobb, al­so known as “Hman” and “San­ni”, of Yorke Trace, Pa­tience Hill, died at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing shot dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion along Or­ange Hill Road around 8.15 pm.

Ac­cord­ing to a TTPS me­dia re­lease is­sued on Thurs­day, of­fi­cers of the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit and the Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Op­er­a­tions) Team/Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit were act­ing on in­tel­li­gence when they went to the area.

They ob­served a white Nis­san Ti­i­da with­out reg­is­tra­tion plates parked along the road­way, with Bobb in­side.

The po­lice said that as of­fi­cers ap­proached the ve­hi­cle, Bobb al­leged­ly point­ed an ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm in their di­rec­tion, prompt­ing them to dis­charge their ser­vice-is­sued weapons.

When of­fi­cers ap­proached the in­jured man to ren­der as­sis­tance, they ob­served what ap­peared to be a chrome re­volver with a wood­en han­dle in his hand. The ob­ject was re­moved, and a search was con­duct­ed, dur­ing which the Sig Sauer pis­tol was re­port­ed­ly found.

The TTPS said the firearm had been tak­en from a po­lice of­fi­cer dur­ing a rob­bery at Pi­geon Point on Oc­to­ber 22.

No po­lice of­fi­cers were in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent.

The cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing are un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion, with the TTPS say­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tor would be ap­point­ed to ex­am­ine the in­ci­dent.