The 56-year-old son of former police commissioner Noor Kenny Mohammed was murdered during an early morning home invasion and robbery yesterday.
Nizam Mohammed was one of two men killed during home invasions yesterday morning, bringing the murder toll for the year to 170.
According to reports, around 5.30 am Mohammed was at his home in the gated Lillian Heights, D’Abadie, with his wife Debbie and their six-year-old son.
Mohammed was reportedly getting ready to leave for work and was standing in the driveway next to his vehicle when three men jumped over the wall at the back of the hillside property.
The intruders threatened Mohammed with guns and demanded that he hand over his licensed firearm, which he did.
One of the men then stood watch over Mohammed as his two accomplices went inside and confronted his wife. The men forced her to open their safe and then stole its contents, which included her licensed firearm.
When the two intruders returned to their cohort, one of them reportedly shot Mohammed, an engineer with a maritime firm in Chaguaramas, in the chest before the trio ran away.
Mohammed was pronounced dead on the scene by a District Medical Officer (DMO) and an autopsy was performed on his body at the Forensic Science Centre in St James hours later.
Investigators said the family had been victims of several burglaries in the past, including one in January 2012 in which the victim’s father’s licensed firearm was also stolen.
Noor Kenny Mohammed served as police commissioner between 1996 and 1998 and was instrumental in establishing the community policing unit. He died in June 2013, shortly after celebrating his 76th birthday.
When a news team from the T&T Guardian visited the family home yesterday, Homicide detectives were on the scene interviewing relatives.
Relatives, who were washing a trail of blood left in the driveway at the time, declined to speak to media personnel.
“Have some compassion. Let the family grieve. They don’t want to talk to anyone right now,” a relative said as she was leaving the property.
In the second incident around 3.30 am, Roger Clement, 32, and his girlfriend Melanie Noriega, 24, were sleeping at his home in St Michael’s Village, Las Cuevas, when neighbours reported hearing a volley of gunshots.
When neighbours went over to check they found the couple’s door open and them lying on their bed with gunshot wounds.
The couple was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where Clement was pronounced dead on arrival. Noriega received treatment and remained warded in a serious condition up to late yesterday.
Detectives of the Region Two Homicide Bureau are continuing investigations into both murders.
