Woman killed after midnight shooting in Princes Town

A 27-year-old woman has been shot dead and her com­pan­ion left crit­i­cal­ly in­jured af­ter gun­men blocked their ve­hi­cle and opened fire along Mal­gretoute Road in Princes Town just af­ter mid­night.

The dead woman has been iden­ti­fied as Monifer Car­rie, 27, of Beetham Gar­dens, Port of Spain.

Car­rie was in a white Nis­san Sen­tra dri­ven by her child’s fa­ther, Isa­iah Cruick­shank, al­so known as Touchy, 30, of Man­a­ham­bre Road, Princes Town.

Po­lice said that while pro­ceed­ing east along Mal­gretoute Road around 12.05 am, a ve­hi­cle ex­it­ed Man­a­ham­bre Branch Road on­to Mal­gretoute Road, block­ing Cruick­shank’s car. Two armed men then ex­it­ed that ve­hi­cle and fired sev­er­al shots in their di­rec­tion be­fore re­turn­ing to their ve­hi­cle and speed­ing off.

A rel­a­tive ran to the scene and found Car­rie on the road. He picked her up, placed her in Cruick­shank’s car and con­veyed both vic­tims to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where Car­rie suc­cumbed to her in­juries around 12.36 am.

Cruick­shank sus­tained sev­er­al gun­shot wounds and was trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion Three are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.