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BY
INDARJIT SEURAJ
A RETIRED Special Reserve officer has succumbed to stab
wounds he received from robbers who relieved him of his
car.
Phillip Nelson, 49, died on Monday, 12 days after he had
been stabbed by robbers. He is the nation’s 73rd murder
victim for the year.
Police investigators said Nelson was robbed of his car and
stabbed on March 28 while struggling with thieves at the
Central Market, Abattoir Road, Port-of-Spain.
The murder toll for the corresponding period last year was
115.
In an unrelated matter, the body found with chop wounds
at Caura Village on Monday has been identified as that of
orphan Samuel Jordan.
Residents stumbled on the body and observed chop wounds
to the back of the head.
Jordan, 31, was a former resident of the St Mary’s
orphanage.
Homicide officers of the Arouca Division believe the incident
may have been drug related and have detained a 34-year-old
suspect from Caura Royal Road for questioning.
Investigators were expected to seek instructions from the
Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday, on any charges
against the suspect.
And in another matter, police investigators have identified
the body found at the St Joseph River on Easter Friday as
that of 49-year-old Rasheed Hosein.
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