Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Se­nior Re­porter

ot­to.car­ring­ton@cnc3.co.tt

A 19-year-old man was shot and killed on Fri­day night in what ap­pears to be a tar­get­ed at­tack.

Ju­nior Cleary, of LP 22 Dibe Road, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James, was found suf­fer­ing from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds around 10:50 pm on Benares Street. Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers from the St James Po­lice Sta­tion dis­cov­ered Cleary ly­ing on the pave­ment, gasp­ing for breath. He had a se­vere head wound, with blood flow­ing from his left tem­ple and nasal area.

Cleary was im­me­di­ate­ly trans­port­ed to the St James Med­ical In­fir­mary, where he was pro­nounced dead at 11:23 pm.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered four spent .45 cal­i­bre shells, nine 9mm spent shells, and three de­formed pro­jec­tiles from the crime scene. The body was lat­er re­moved to Grace Fu­ner­al Home un­der po­lice es­cort.

WPC Prince is lead­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, and au­thor­i­ties are work­ing to de­ter­mine the mo­tive be­hind the killing. Po­lice are urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion to come for­ward.