THE POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY HAS STATED THAT IT WAS THE POLICE WHO SHOT AND KILLED A PREGNANT WOMAN DURING PROTEST ACTION NEAR THE BEETHAM HIGHWAY IN 2020 WHICH HAD BEEN TRIGGERED BY THE POLICE KILLINGS OF THREE MEN IN MORVANT DAYS EARLIER.
• IN A STATEMENT ISSUED EARLIER TODAY, THE PCA SAID IT HAD CONCLUDED ITS INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF ORNELLA GRAVES AND BASED ON ITS INDEPENDENT PROBE, EVIDENCE CAME FORWARD THAT IT WAS IN FACT A POLICE OFFICER WHO FIRED THE FATAL SHOT.
• GRAVES, A PREGNANT WOMAN, WAS SHOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AT CLOSE RANGE ON JUNE 30TH, 2020. SHE WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN TO THE PORT OF SPAIN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN A POLICE VEHICLE BUT WAS DECLARED DEAD.
• THE PCA ALSO INVESTIGATED TWO SEPARATE INCIDENTS IN WHICH TWO MEN WERE SHOT BY POLICE OFFICERS DURING PROTESTS IN PORT OF SPAIN AND HAS SUBMITTED ITS REPORTS ALONG WITH RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ON JUNE 30TH, 2022.
• THE PROTEST AT BEETHAM GARDENS WAS ONE OF MANY WHICH STEMMED FROM THE POLICE KILLING OF THREE MEN INSIDE A VEHICLE AT SECOND CALEDONIA ROAD IN MORVANT
• 38-YEAR-OLD JOEL JACOB AKA LION; HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND 46-YEAR-OLD NOEL DIAMOND; AND FELLOW VILLAGER 27-YEAR-OLD ISRAEL MOSES CLINTON, WERE KILLED BY GEB AND IATF OFFICERS.
• HOURS AFTER CCTV VIDEO OF THE KILLING EMERGED, THERE WERE SPORADIC PROTESTS IN SEVERAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS TRINIDAD FOR TWO (2) SUCCESSIVE DAYS.
• OVER THE WEEKEND, NEWSDAY REPORTED THAT THE DPP’S OFFICE GAVE ADVICE TO POLICE OFFICERS PROBING THE INCIDENT TO DETAIN EIGHTEEN (18) POLICEMEN, SEVEN (7) OF WHOM FIRED THEIR WEAPONS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRIPLE KILLINGS.
• THE OFFICERS FACE CHARGES OF HOMICIDE, PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE, MISBEHAVIOUR IN PUBLIC OFFICE AND MAKING FALSE STATION DIARY ENTRIES.

