By FRANCIS JOSEPH
A 19-year-old man who was on bail for offences of robbery with violence, larceny and shooting with intent, was killed during police/army operation at his mother’s home on Wednesday afternoon.
Aaron Anderson was shot in his mother’s house on Delhi Road, Fyzabad, and pronounced dead at the hospital.
According to the police report, officers of the Home Invasion Team and members of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force went to the house around 4.27 p.m. to execute a search warrant for arms and ammunition.
The report said that officers took up positions around the house while a team entered and encountered the suspect.
of blood in an upstairs bathroom
Police claimed that Anderson pointed a firearm at the officers and that a soldier fired one round from his rifle, striking Anderson in the head. The report said the gun fell from Anderson’s hand.
Anderson was taken to the Point Fortin District Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5.06 p.m.
Anderson’s mother said she was told that the “police “buss” through the back door, drag him by his hair, slap him up, drag him inside. My sister-in-law said they drag him up the steps and she hear one shot and a few ring off after. They shoot him in the bathroom and then they drag him down the step through the living room, out the drawing room. They execute him, they coulda lock him up.”
She continued, “He is a youth man, he got caught up with wrong people. He get lock up, he get charged.”
Police are awaiting the results of a post-mortem. They are also trying to trace the weapon seized.
