By FRANCIS JOSEPH
A robbery suspect was shot and killed in Tobago on Wednesday night.
He has been identified as Hasani Bobb.
He was shot and wounded during a police exercise in Patience Hill, Tobago.
Senior Superintendent Rohdill Kirk said police officers acting on intelligence went to Patience Hill on Wednesday night where they confronted a man believed to be one of the suspects identified in the robbery of a police officer attached to the Shirvan Road Police Station.
Kirk said when Bobb was confronted, he pointed a firearm at the police officers who returned fire. He was shot and wounded and rushed to the Scarborough General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Kirk said two firearms were seized. One of the guns was identified as that taken from the police officer in the robbery.
This was the third person to die in a police-involved shooting in Tobago for 2026.
Two suspected gunmen were killed and a police officer injured during a shootout with police in Buccoo on October 7.
According to reports, police officers acting on intelligence, intercepted a silver Toyota Aqua along Golden Grove Road, Buccoo, around 7 pm. However, the vehicle’s occupants reportedly opened fire on the officers. The police officers returned fire, hitting both suspects.
One suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was taken to the Scarborough General Hospital in critical condition, where he later succumbed to his injuries. One of the men was identified as Jamal Clarke, alias ‘Shilo’
For 2026, 39 persons have been killed by the police in Trinidad and Tobago for 2026.
Just last week, two men were killed in separate incidents in Trinidad.
A man was fatally shot in a confrontation with the police in Ste Madeleine on October 23. He was identified as Mikael Isaiah Lewis, of Corinth Hills. Police said Lewis was shot during an anti-crime exercise in the Ste Madeleine police district.
On October 22, a man identified as Andel Lee was fatally shot by police in Laventille following a confrontation. Lee’s killing triggered a protest in the area. Police said Lee was wanted in connection with robberies in the Port-of-Spain shopping area.
The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has close to 200 open investigations into police-involved killings.
