Seventeen-year-old Recardo Mohammed who was shot and killed by the bullet from a police officer’s gun at a Chaguaramas party on Sunday was shot once in the back, with the bullet exiting his chest, an autopsy found. Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov, who performed the examination at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, on the teenager’s body said Mohammed bled to death, despite arriving at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital within 30 minutes after being shot.
According to police reports, a uniformed police officer saw two men and a woman smoking marijuana near the Military Museum, Chaguaramas, around 5.30 am on Sunday shortly after a party ended. The officer seized the marijuana and was speaking to the men when another man grabbed his service pistol. During a struggle for the gun, it went off hitting Mohammed who was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Senior police officers attached to the Western Division told the T&T Guardian yesterday the matter was being investigated. They denied reports that the police officer had shot at a man who escaped from his custody.
