One woman was shot dead and another found with her throat slit and a plastic bag over her head in separate incidents on Wednesday. The body of Florentine Arneaud, 62, from St Vincent and the Grenadines, was found at her Valencia home. Relatives had earlier gone to her home shortly after 8 pm, found a door open and her television and DVD player missing. Her body was later found in the house. Arneaud was last seen alive on October 26, police said.
In the second incident, 36-year-old Indra Diaz was killed moments after sharing a meal with her husband Shawn Khan at their Madras Road, Cunupia, home around 9 pm. Police said the couple were having an outdoor dinner at the back of their house when a gunman approached and shot her. Khan, a maintenance custodian with the Airports Authority, told police he heard a loud explosion and then saw his wife drop to the ground. The killer escaped by running through the bush at the back of the house. Central Division head Senior Supt Johnny Abraham told the T&T Guardian a relative was assisting the police with their investigations.
In a third incident, police said Marlon Charles was found dead around 5 am yesterday with bullet wounds to the back of the head in a white Nissan B-14 near the Caroni cremation site. Charles was a nurse at St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital and was returning home from a birthday party hosted by his colleagues. He would have turned 36 yesterday. Police say they believe Charles was robbed before being shot. The latest killings have taken the murder toll now to 343, 17 higher than for the same period last year.