Laventille man shot dead in bed

Black Immigrant Daily News

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

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Police are probing the murder of a 37-year-old Laventille man on Tuesday.

Police said officers of the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) received information that a body had been found on St John Street, Laventille, at around 6.45 pm.

They went to a house and found O’Neil Nicholas’s body on a bed with several gunshot wounds.

Police from the Central Police Station and the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region I visited with a district medical officer, who declared Nicholas dead.

Crime scene investigators found several spent 5.56 mm shells at the scene.

No motive has been established for the murder.

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