After a night of revelry at the Point Fortin borough festivities Mexican engineer, Sookooroo Sorano, met his death after being shot in a botched robbery yesterday morning.
Sorano, 37, a tech form engineer with PACE Construction Services Ltd, died at the Point Fortin Area Hospital. He was shot four times in the back.
A report stated that Sorano and a colleague, Camacho Hernandez, a Colombian national, were returning to their accommodation at the company’s worksite at the Lake View housing estate around 3.30 am, when the incident happened. While walking along Church Avenue, they heard someone shouted “Amigos.” When they looked around, they saw a man with his face covered by a bandanna.
Suspecting that the man was a bandit, Sorano and Hernandez ran off but the suspect fired several shots behind them. As they turned as to St Anthony’s Road, Sorano fell to the ground bleeding. The gunman ran off.
A resident, who requested anonymity, said he heard the gunshots and when he looked out he saw Hernandez holding up Sorano who was bleeding from the chest. Within 15 minutes police arrived and took him away. Sorano died while being treated at hospital.
Police searched the area for the suspect, but no one was held up to yesterday. Camacho spent the most of the day at the Point Fortin Police Station as homicide detectives used a translator to interview him. Investigators said initial reports suggest that robbery might be the motive but they are still examining other causes.
At his job site yesterday, a colleague told the T&T Guardian that the staff was left saddened by the senseless murder. The colleague said Sorano had been living in Trinidad for the past 10 years and had found a wife. He was described as a hard worker, who was vital to completing the company’s project of building HDC houses at the Lake View Estate.
“He was a very hard working man. Nowhere in this earth we will get a person as hardworking as him again. Everyone here this morning is in shock as they never knew him to lime a lot. Usually he would just go out there, buy whatever he wanted and return to the base.”
