Nineteen-year-old Hakim Sturge died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Monday night, hours after being shot twice at a village parlour by a masked man. Police said Sturge of Poinsettia Drive, Morvant, was at a nearby parlour around 10.30 am on Monday when a gunman came into the shop and shot him. The killer fired several times at his target but Sturge was shot twice, his autopsy report said. Sturge died around 9 pm at hospital. Police believed the killing to be gang related.
In an unrelated matter, 57-year-old Steve Gogan whose decapitated body was found near the Santa Rosa race track on Sunday morning, was chopped to death. Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov told the T&T Guardian Gogan was facing his attacker initially, as he had defensive wounds on his hand and arms. He sustained more chop wounds to the back.
Alexandrov believed Gogan fell and while on the ground, face down, he was chopped at least 12 times to the back of the head before he was beheaded. Police have no motive for the killing.