A 34-year-old plant operator employed with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) was shot dead at his home in La Horquetta, Arima, on Thursday afternoon. Police said around 2.25 pm, Mark Celestine, of Hummingbird Avenue, La Horquetta, was at home with his wife when the couple heard someone knocking on their front door. Celestine’s wife told police her husband went to check on the noise and after a couple of minutes she heard several gunshots.
She ran outside and found him lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the neck. Celestine was taken to the Arima Health Facility but was pronounced dead on arrival. Homicide detectives said Celestine was not known to them and a motive for his murder has not been determined. Senior Supt John Daniel and detectives of the Homicide Bureau are probing Celestine’s murder, which raised the homicide toll for the year to 204.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old Carenage man remains warded in hospital after he was wounded in a shooting in Glencoe on Thursday night. According to reports, around 9.45 pm, Kareem Holder, of Schuller Street, Carenage, was driving his white Nissan Tiida along La Horquette Valley Road when three men ran in front of his car. When he stopped, two of the men began shooting at him. They then ran through a nearby track.
Holder was shot in the left leg, right shoulder and hip. Western Division police took Holder to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital. He remained warded in a stable condition up to late yesterday. Senior Supt Ismael David and Insp Henry Dann are probing that incident.