As killers return to the scene of the crime, eyewitnesses said, so did Stephen “Tee Tee” Pollard’s attacker yesterday morning at Broadway, Port-of-Spain. Vendors along Broadway said hours after the murder, Pollard’s attacker visited the area early yesterday as if he was an ordinary onlooker curious about what had occurred at the scene. One of the vendors said they saw Pollard’s assailant asking questions and having conversations with people who were milling around.
“Like he was looking for somebody. He was asking people questions,” the vendor said. “I am not afraid of him. All this happen because of some war going on here over somebody thieving some orange or fruit. I believe somebody hired him to get rid of Tee Tee.” Another vendor, who was liming with Pollard at the time of the shooting, said intuition may have saved him from death.
He said he and Pollard were liming and taking a drink when he saw a car slow down and pull up in the middle of the road where people park their vehicles along Broadway. “Nothing happened for a while,” he said. But, he said, he then began to have a “bad feeling as if something was going to happen.”
“So Tee Tee said, ‘Nothing’s going to happen to me.’ Then I saw the back door of the car open and somebody raise something silver in their hand to me. So I ran across the road and I heard the shots fired and then he (the gunman) get out and shoot him again,” he said. Other vendors on Broadway described Pollard “as a nice man who did not get into trouble.”
One of the female vendors said Pollard was busy daily running two clothing stalls. “He owned two clothing stalls and he would run back and forth to each one. He was very nice and I never know him to be in anything with anybody. I wasn’t here when it happened. He was quiet,” she said.