THURSDAY 10TH MAY 2018

MURDER TOLL: 198 SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 187 LATEST VICTIM: STEPHEN LOPEZ AKA ‘MAX’ SHOT DEAD IN ARIMA THERE HAVE BEEN 21 REPORTED HOMICIDES IN THE PORT OF SPAIN DIVISION FOR THE YEAR THUS FAR WITH 4 OF THE OCCURRING ON STREETS IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL. 20 OF THE 21 KILLINGS WERE COMMITTED WITH THE USE OF GUNS AND AMMUNITION WITH THE LATEST KILLING TAKING PLACE IN BELMONT THE DIVISION COMPRISES DISTRICTS SUCH AS LAVENTILLE; SEA LOTS; BEETHAM GARDENS; EAST PORT OF SPAIN; PARTS OF WOODBROOK; ST CLAIR; PARTS OF MARAVAL; CASCADE, ST ANN’S; BELMONT; WRIGHTSON ROAD; AND UPTOWN AND DOWNTOWN PORT OF SPAIN. THE DIVISION, COMPRISES OF 5 POLICE STATIONS AND 2 POLICE POSTS WHICH ARE: CENTRAL POLICE STATION IN PORT OF SPAIN; BESSON STREET IN EAST PORT OF SPAIN; BELMONT; WOODBROOK; AND THE ST CLAIR POLICE STATION. THE POLICE POSTS ARE ST BARBB’S POLICE POST IN LAVENTILLE AND THE DUNCAN STREET POLICE POST. FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY THERE WERE 7 HOMICIDES; 2 IN FEBRUARY; 2 IN MARCH; 8 IN APRIL; AND 2 FOR MAY THUS FAR. EIGHT OF THE 21 KILLINGS TOOK PLACE IN THE CAPITAL CITY, PORT OF SPAIN ‘MAX’ SHOT DEAD DAYS AFTER PRISON RELEASE IN ARIMA: THE BULLET-RIDDLED BODY OF STEPHAN LOPEZ AKA ‘MAX’, WAS DISCOVERED BEHIND A FIG PATCH AT MT PLEASANT ROAD, ARIMA EARLIER TODAY SEVERAL HOURS AFTER GUNFIRE RANG OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AROUND 3:45AM. WHEN THE VILLAGERS HEARD THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE THEY KNEW THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A VICTIM BUT THEY SIMPLY IGNORED IT, ENSURED THEIR DOORS AND WINDOWS WERE SHUT TIGHT AND WENT BACK TO BED. JUST AFTER 8 AM LOPEZ’S BODY WAS FOUND BY A VILLAGER AND OFFICERS FROM THE ARIMA POLICE STATION WERE NOTIFIED. HE WAS REPORTEDLY RELEASED FROM PRISON 3 DAYS AGO. SEEBARAN SHOT DEAD BY HOODED GUNMAN IN BELMONT: 29 YEAR OLD RANDY SEEBARAN A FATHER OF ONE OF ROSSLIN STREET, BELMONT, WHO SHOT DEAD WHILE WALKING ALONG NORFOLK STREET, BELMONT BY A MAN WHO WAS CLAD IN A HOODED SWEATER. THE SUSPECT THEN RAN A SHORT DISTANCE WHERE HE JUMPED INTO A WAITING VEHICLE WHICH SPED OFF. OFFICERS OF THE BELMONT CRIME PATROL RESPONDED TO THE SHOOTING AND WENT IN SEARCH OF THE SUSPECTS BUT THEY COULD NOT BE FOUND. SEEBARAN DIED ON THE PAVEMENT FROM THE GUNSHOT INJURIES HE SUSTAINED. RESIDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED SHOCK OVER HIS KILLING SAYING HE WAS NOT KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. PERSON OF INTEREST: PATRICE DONNA MARIE BIGFORD PERSON OF INTEREST: LA TOYA HICKS PERSON OF INTEREST: MARLENE MURIEL ARCHIBALD PERSON OF INTEREST: ANTONIO WILLIAMS AKA CARDO