By FRANCIS JOSEPH
It was certainly not a robbery!
That is how senior police investigators described the killing of British national, Elaine Mc Jouan, on Sunday morning. Mc Jouan, 65, was shot dead while standing in a yard with her husband in Trincity.
Homicide Bureau officers said Mc Jouan, of Mohammed Ville, El Socorro, was at de La Marre Avenue around 11 a.m. when a silver Nissan Tiida stopped in front of the couple.
A gunman got out of the vehicle and opened fire on Mc Jouan before escaping. That shooting lasted five seconds. She was rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Centre, Mount Hope, but doctors pronounced her dead on arrival. Her husband escaped unhurt.
While Police have not revealed a motive for the killing, they certainly believe it was a hit based on how it happened. They are now exploring possibilities like whether the woman was previously threatened.
Police said this was a brazen shooting as the killer and his accomplice (s) knew exactly when she was going to be in the yard and how they were going to escape, especially with the busy Churchill Roosevelt Highway in the background.
Homicide officer are trying to determine whether Mc Jouan was specifically targeted, why the gunman opened fire, and who was behind the attack.
The British High Commission in Port-of-Spain has been updated and relatives in the United Kingdom have been informed.
For 2026, 21 women have been murdered. In July, two women have been murdered, the other being MTS worker Neisha Roberts, 40, who was found by a relative around 7 am on July 1 in a pool of blood near the bathroom of her Mt St George home in Tobago.
She had been stabbed to death. Police said a 41-year-old suspect boarded the Galleons Passage in Scarborough, but was held on the vessel’s arrival in Port-of-Spain.
Roberts’ murder was the seventh on the island for the year.
