Up to late yesterday, the country’s most wanted man Azmon “Pappi” Alexander continued to elude police. Senior Sup David Abraham of the Northern Division told the Sunday Guardian that Alexander remained a fugitive. “There are no new updates on Azmon so far. Same thing...” Abraham said yesterday in a telephone interview.
Abraham said that for most of yesterday, officers from the Northern Division, Northeastern Division, and other agencies from the T&T Police Service were on the lookout for Alexander, who remains at large. “The entire police service is looking for him.” Abraham said the areas the police combed were based on phone calls or intelligence they would have received. “I cannot say. I don’t know where or when they (police) searched.”
Abraham said the search continue today. “We are not going to stop until he is hunted down,” Abraham said. Alexander has been described as a person of interest and the country’s most wanted in the disappearance of a Brasso Seco family.
Criminologist: He’s not likely to surrender
On Friday, criminologist Dr Randy Seepersad said he felt Alexander was not likely to surrender to the police. “Chances are, if the police catch up with him somewhere, they might end up killing him. “We know he (Alexander) is armed. There is going to be a shootout. I don’t think he will give himself up. He would probably go down fighting in a hail of gunfire,” Seepersad said.
Alexander has been eluding the police since the abduction of Irma Rampersad, her two teenage daughters Janelle and Felicia Gonzales, baby Shania Amoroso and Felix Martinez at their Brasso Seco, home on October 26. The decomposing bodies of Rampersad, Martinez and baby Shania were found a few days later. Martinez and Rampersad were strangled. An autopsy on Shania’s body was inconclusive.
On Thursday, it was reported exclusively in the Trinidad Guardian that Alexander has been eluding capture by dressing like a woman, complete with wig and clean-shaven face, and is being assisted by relatives who live along the Blanchisseuse Road. “These guys would probably try every trick in the book to get away. Given that everybody in the country knows what he looks like, he would have to go by people who he knows...but even these people might be reluctant to harbour him,” Seepersad said.
Seepersad said Alexander was thinking beyond the average criminal. “When you look at what criminals do, how they operate, there is a level of rationality, calculation, and thought with clear motives. In a case like this, it is beyond what an average criminal would do. There is a level of sickness that seems to be there.”
He said while gangs operate with clear motives, which can be analysed, Seepersad said the murders of Rampersad, Martinez and Shania “seems to be beyond rationality. “In my mind, it is very difficult to even fantom that a person could do that (kill a child). It showed no respect for human life and respect for the law. This is one of those cases that have shocked the nation.”