• The deceased was identified as 55-year-old Christino Perreira of Race Course Road, Carapo, Arima.
• Around 9:18pm, officers attached to the Special Operations Crime Patrol Unit at the Arima Police Station, were on mobile patrol, when they received information of a murder along Race Course Road.
• When they arrived at the scene, they were directed to a white Nissan Wingroad registered PBS 8309, parked in a yard.
• The officers made further checks and observed Perreira’s body slumped over to the left front passenger seat bleeding from gunshot wounds to the head.
• The officers summoned a DMO to the scene who viewed the body, made her pronouncement and ordered the removal.
• Crime scene investigators also responded and recovered Eight spent 9 mm shell casings.
The last murder that took place in Carapo was on Saturday 8th April, 2023, when 36-year-old Sharmar Phillip James aka “Shammi” of Unity Lane, Racecourse Road was gunned down near his home.