PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad– Trinidad Tobago police were appealing for public assistance as they probe the shooting deaths of four people, including a three-year boy, gunned down in Diego Martin, west of here, as they were returning from a wedding on Sunday.
“If there is CCTV footage, we will use it, witnesses will be interviewed, thorough investigations are underway, and once again, I am appealing to anyone who has information that can lead to the capture and arrest of these murderers, we need you to come forward,” said acting Police Commissioner, McDonald Jacob.
He urged people to put aside their “erroneous rhetoric about not being able to trust the police” and help solve the shootings of 27-year-old Chelsea Julien, her boyfriend Akil Keron Gloster, their 22-year-old friend Marcus “Markie” Noel, 31-year-old Nicholas “Calke Boss” Owen, his girlfriend Khadija Vilbara and their three-year-old son Nizam.
Police said gunmen ambushed them as they drove in a vehicle with Jacob urging eyewitnesses not to “sit on information that can help not only a family, but all of us, to heal from this attack that affects everyone.
“If we want the light to prevail, then we must do what is right; when you see something, please say something to the police,” he added, offering condolences to the victim’s families and providing counseling from the police and Witness Support Unit.
“I do not want to just offer condolences and counseling from our Victim and Witness Support Unit; I strongly wish to offer timely justice for those who were slain,” he added.
CCTV footage of the shooting, which was subsequently shared on social media, showed the shooters suspected to have followed the vehicle in which those were killed, shooting as they were overtaking the car, causing it to veer left off the road crash into a wall.
Julien, Gloster, and Noel died at the scene, while residents took Owen, Pilbara, and their son to the St James Medical Facility for treatment, where the toddler was pronounced dead on arrival.
In 2007, Gloster, with several others, was charged with the kidnapping and murder of former Xtra Foods chief executive Vindra Naipaul-Coolman.
But the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) opted to discontinue Gloster’s prosecution; some of the others were eventually freed at the conclusion of their trial in 2016. However, two other persons are still facing a retrial.
So far this year, 487 people have been murdered.
and then 
