Three peo­ple were killed and one in­jured in two sep­a­rate po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings in east Trinidad yes­ter­day. Po­lice of­fi­cers have al­so launched a man­hunt for two oth­er sus­pects who were in­volved in one of the al­leged shootouts and who were be­lieved to be part of a home in­va­sion in Ma­tu­ri­ta, Ari­ma, that even­tu­al­ly led to the triple killings.

In that in­ci­dent, po­lice said at about 11 am of­fi­cers act­ing on in­tel­li­gence went in­to a forest­ed area near Dump Road, Ari­ma, where they were greet­ed by gun­fire. The of­fi­cers re­turned fire. Three men were lat­er found dead. Po­lice said they re­cov­ered two re­volvers near the bod­ies of two of the men.

One of them was iden­ti­fied as pris­on­er Ted­dy Singh, 26, of Ari­ma. Singh made a dar­ing es­cape from the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Court on May 15, short­ly af­ter he was tak­en to the court by a pris­on­er trans­port van.Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, Singh was placed in the court’s hold­ing bay when he man­aged to es­cape. He was an in­mate of the Gold­en Grove Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca. Singh, whose last known ad­dress was La Re­treat Road, Ari­ma, was charged with mur­der in De­cem­ber 2014.(Trinidad Guardian)…[+]