The investigation into the triple police killing in Second Caledonia, Morvant which occurred just over a year ago took a dramatic turn last week when investigators did a complete re-enactment of the scene.
Police blocked off the entrance to Juman Drive from Lady Young Road and the exit at Second Caledonia Road for almost six hours as investigators painstakingly recreated the events in which three residents Joel Jacobs, Noel Diamond and Israel Moses Clinton were killed instantly in a hail of gunfire on June 27, 2020.
The event churned up emotions among residents who peered through windows, banana patches, banisters as crime scene unit detectives followed the instruction of the lead investigator Supt Wayne Abbott's every detail.
Police said the objective of the recreation of the incident was to allow investigators to get a first-hand perspective of what actually happened during the incident as well as to determine whether the level of threat the officers claimed they faced when seven of them fired their weapons was justifiable for them to respond.
[caption id="attachment_904501" align="alignnone" width="825"] A screenshot of the security footage which captured the police shooting of three men on June 27, 2020. -[/caption]
Senior officers said the recall a similar exercise was done by homicide investigators in 2011 in the case where six police officers are accused of killing a man and two woman in Rochard Douglas Road, Barrackpore.
In that matter, acting Sgt Khemraj Sahadeo and PCs Renaldo Reviero, Glenn Singh, Roger Nicholas, Safraz Juman and Antonio Ramadin were charged for murder and one of the colleagues WPC Nicole Clement cut a deal with the State to testify against them.
Abbott, a seasoned narcotics officer , was hand-picked to probe the fatal police shooting by the upper command of the police service after the incident ignited a wave of outrage and claims of extra-judicial killings, arrived on the scene with ASP Persad, both of the southern division around 2 pm on July 29.
Teams of other officers including from various other units, including the Homicide Bureau, the Special Investigations Unit, Cybercrime Unit, followed and residents were asked to remove cars parked on the roadway near the area where 18 officers, assigned to the Inter-Agency Task Force and the Guard and Emergency Branch, travelling in four jeeps had stopped a gold-coloured Nissan Tiida shortly after 2 pm, on June 27, 2020.
[caption id="attachment_904481" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Morvant residents observe police as they recreated the crime scene where three men were killed by police on June 27, 2020 at Juman Drive, Second Caledonia on July 29. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton[/caption]
About an hour later, one of five officers who was among the team, which intercepted the Tiida, was brought to the scene from the Lady Young entrance and like his colleagues directed Abbott and his team as to where the police vehicles had parked when they stopped the car.
On each of the four occasions, investigators recreated the events acc
