Police Constable Preddie Murder In Slain Manchester Just 2 Nights Ago… Such A Gruesome Sigh

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) for Police Area Three, which includes the parish of Manchester, Kevin Blake, is describing the murder last night of Constable Orville Preddie as a wicked act and one which must be condemned by the entire society.

“This is further evidence that while significant gains have been made in reducing the number of murders in 2014, the fight against criminals is not over.

“The manner in which Constable Preddie was murdered speaks to the callousness of these murderers. We mourn for our colleague and I offer my personal sympathies and that of the Constabulary to the family, friends and colleagues of Constable Preddie,” ACP Blake told OBSERVER ONLINE Friday morning.

Police say Preddie who was off duty and unarmed was relaxing with friends at a bar in the remote community of Farm in the Asia police division of southern Manchester when several men armed with guns entered the premises.

The criminals proceeded to rob patrons and in the process of going through their pockets discovered Preddie’s police identification. One of the gunmen promptly shot him in the head. He reportedly died on the spot.

Police Divisional Commander for Superintendent Melvin Brown says “no stone will be left unturned” in the hunt for the killers of the 34 year-old constable.

“We will be unrelenting, turning over every stone, exploring every angle… we are resolved to find those responsible,” Brown told OBSERVER ONLINE.

Preddie was married with two children aged eight years and 18 months.

He is the second policeman to be killed in 2014.

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More gruesome murders in Trinidad & Tobago

The latest murder count in Trinidad & Tobago has put the total at 187 since the start of the year.

The Trinidad Guardian newspaper reported on Monday that there were four more killings in the last 24 hours, underlining the growing concerns of law abiding citizens of that country.

Two of those killed were brothers – nine-year-old Jadel Holder and 15 year old Jamal Brathwaite. They were both ordered to lie on the ground before being shot in the head on Sunday.

Then on Monday, in south Trinidad, 41 year-old Roopchand Harripersad of De Verteuil St, Lambert Village, San Fernando, was found dead around 8 a.m. He had a single gunshot wound to the head. Earlier, 17-year-old Michael Miguel, was found dead in Claxton Bay.

Roopchand had been released from jail about two weeks ago, and was well known to the police.

The newspaper reports that on Sunday, in the community of Morvant, the two brothers, aged nine and 15, were killed and their teenage cousin wounded in a gang-related incident at their home. Teenager Jamal Brathwaite and his brother Jadel Holder had just had lunch at their mother’s home at Petunia Avenue, Coconut Drive, around 3 pm when two gunmen raided the small-two storey duplex and executed them.

Trouble makers

Meanwhile, in other media reports, the police have been describing the two siblings who were executed as trouble-makers who had been involved in gang related activities.

Investigators said, despite his age, Brathwaite was well known to police, who suspect he had recently been initiated into the gang which operates in his community. He was also a suspect in several recent shootings in the Morvant area on the outskirts of the capital. 

Residents said Brathwaite had dropped out of school at the primary school level, while the nine-year-old is reported to have been a follower of his elder brother.

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