Three members of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard are due to return to court on February 23, after they were charged with murder.
A police statement said Able Body Seaman Kaydan Boucaud, Able Body Seaman Elijah Julien, and Writer Emmarson Pardassie, appeared virtually before Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor, at the Port of Spain Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
The three men were arrested on January 18, after officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations (HBI) investigated the disappearance and death of 34 -year-old Teddy Sylvester, who was allegedly kidnapped on January 9, and his decomposing body discovered four days later in Petit Valley.
Meanwhile, police said a 16-year-old schoolboy was one of two people gunned down in St Augustine, on Tuesday.
Police said Darshan Ramnauth left his home to check on his grandmother after hearing gunshots nearby, when he was shot by the killers, who had earlier shot and killed a man identified only as Geno.
The police said the gunmen saw the schoolboy, chased him, and shot him several times. He died at the scene.
Two other people who were also wounded in the attack, were taken to hospital.
Police said they have since arrested three men and seized three pistols and an AK-47 assault rifle. So far this year, 40 people have been killed. Last year, Trinidad and Tobago recorded 606 murders.
Relatives said Ramnauth, a form five student of St. Augustine Secondary School, was due to write the Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations later this year.
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