BEATEN: Police officers look on as funeral home personnel move the body of Lester Diaz, who was found with his face badly beaten at Maracas Beach yesterday morning near to the Uncle Sam's bar. -Photo: DEXTER PHILIP
Source: Trinidad Express
THREE men were killed in north Trinidad between Sunday night and yesterday morning during separate incidents, bringing the murder toll up to 392 yesterday evening. However, Deputy Commissioner of Police Gilbert Reyes yesterday challenged the media's murder toll at the weekly police press conference, saying, according to their figures, the murder toll was currently 383 at the time he was giving the statement. He said the media's figure was this high because they were incorrectly classifying some of the deaths. (See story above) The first murder occurred in Laventille at 8.30 p.m. on Sunday. Police said David Alexander, 39, of La Resource Road, Upper Laventille, was walking along Schuller Street with a friend when two men walked up to them and fired several shots. Alexander was hit in the chest while his friend was shot in the leg. Both men were taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital, but Alexander did not survive the trip. His friend remained in stable condition at the hospital last night. The other murder occurred sometime between 10.30 p.m. on Sunday and 6 a.m. yesterday. The dead man was identified as Lester Diaz, 38, who lived with his mother at Old Bay Road, Maracas Bay. According to his sister, who spoke to the Express yesterday, Diaz was last seen alive at the popular Uncle Sam's bar by his brother, who spent about 15 minutes trying to convince him to leave the place because he (Diaz's brother) had "serious reservations" about the crowd liming there at the time. Diaz's relatives described the crowd as "two maxi-load of people from Maloney". Diaz did not listen to his brother and kept on liming. Sometime around 6 a.m. yesterday, Diaz's body was found on the beach relatively near to the bar. There were several cuts and bruises to his face. Diaz's sister said sometime around midnight "we heard a lot of screaming and we thought it was the crowd getting on". Yesterday, however, they speculated that the screaming at that time may have been going on while Diaz was being beaten. In the final incident, Mark Millington succumbed to gunshot wounds at the Port of Spain General Hospital shortly before noon yesterday, hours after being found bleeding at Rail Road, which is off the Diego Martin Main Road. Police said around 4.15 a.m., Millington, 30, of an unknown address, was found with a gunshot wound to the neck. Someone who saw him contacted the police and he was taken to the hospital. Police are yet to arrive at a motive behind his shooting. Homicide officers are continuing investigations into the murders. |  |
He said the media's figure was this high because they were incorrectly classifying some of the deaths.Seems to me that Gilbert Reyes has been the one who was incorrectly classifying some of the deaths that have been taking place in Trinidad & Tobago. It seems that he would rather try to put some sort of false spin (as our PNM Minister of National Security always does) on the story that to take responsibility for what is part of his job and what he is being paid for through the hard working citizens' tax paying dollar.
Why didn't Gilbert Reyes explain to the public why there are so many unsolved murders? He should give us some statistics as to how many murders have been solved so far for 2007 and why it is that almost 400 people have to die senselessly every year instead of trying to fight down the murder toll figure.
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