Less than a month after used car dealer Mark Mohammed was shot dead in front of his wife and seven-year-old son, five of his employees were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the crime.
The group of men were arrested by detectives of the Morvant CID at Mohammed’s business located off the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in Macoya. After receiving information about the suspects this week, the officers led by Senior Supt Radcliff Boxhill and Sgt Raymond Austin searched the premises and found a loaded 9mm pistol.
The men, of Piarco, Tunapuna and St Helena, were then handed over to detectives of the Region Two Homicide Bureau and were being interrogated at the Arouca Police Station up to late yesterday. The illegal gun was taken to the Forensic Science Centre in St James where ballistic testing will be done to determine if it matched spent shells recovered on the scene of Mohammed’s shooting. Mohammed, 26, was shot dead as he drove his Mercedes Benz into the driveway of his Ross Street, St Helena, home.
Mohammed was returning home with his common-law wife Adana Lalla and their young son. Lalla was also wounded in the shooting but survived, while the gunman spared the child.
Investigations are continuing.