The Po­lice Ser­vice has “strong­ly con­demned” the shoot­ing in­ci­dent at the St. James Med­ical Com­plex ear­li­er to­day, in which an em­ploy­ee lost his life.

The con­dem­na­tion and as­sur­ances that jus­tice will pre­vail came in an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued a short while ago, in which the TTPS con­firmed that in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the homi­cide that oc­curred at hos­pi­tal’s premis­es.

“The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice strong­ly con­demns the brazen at­tack that claimed the life of Ja­mal Watts at the St. James Med­ical Com­plex. Homi­cide de­tec­tives and Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors are on the ground and in­ves­ti­ga­tions have be­gun,” the TTPS re­lease said.

The Po­lice Ser­vice al­so is ask­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance with the probe.

“We are com­mit­ted to bring­ing those re­spon­si­ble to jus­tice and urge any­one with in­for­ma­tion to come for­ward as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.”

The state­ment pro­vid­ed a sum­ma­ry of what oc­curred at the St James Med­ical Com­plex, to­day:

“At ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10:30 am on 4th Au­gust 2024, Ja­mal Watts, 31, a main­te­nance work­er at the St. James Med­ical Com­plex, was cut­ting grass at the rear of the com­pound when he was ap­proached by two masked as­sailants. One of the in­di­vid­u­als was armed with a ri­fle and the oth­er with a shot­gun. The at­tack­ers fired sev­er­al shots at Watts be­fore flee­ing the scene in a sil­ver Hyundai Ac­cent.”

The TTPS re­port­ed: “Watts col­lapsed and was tak­en in­to the med­ical fa­cil­i­ty by staff for treat­ment. De­spite their ef­forts, he suc­cumbed to his in­juries.”

“The scene was at­tend­ed and processed by of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions and the Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit,” the re­lease added.