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On Wednesday, officers responded to “a report of a mass taking pictures” in Kingstown.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Authorities are on excessive alert in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, following a taking pictures incident that left 5 folks lifeless.
Round 8 p.m. Wednesday, native time, officers responded to “a report of a mass taking pictures” in Kingstown, the capital of the Caribbean nation, in line with a press release from the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Power.
Police advised ABC Information a gaggle of individuals had been within the Harbour Membership space, when a car pulled up and occupants of the car started taking pictures.
5 folks had been fatally shot within the incident, together with a 13-year-old boy, investigators mentioned.
“Primarily based on the crime scene, an assault weapon seems to have been used,” Police Commissioner Colin John mentioned at a information convention on Thursday. “We additionally acquired intel about attainable reprisals and that’s one thing that we’re taking very severely.”
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, who’s overseas on an official go to to Morocco, supplied condolences to the households of the victims in a video assertion.
“We are going to resolve this, and we’ll carry the perpetrators to justice, those that carried out the killings and those that are the authors,” Dr. Gonsalves mentioned.
The USA has been working with Caribbean nations to battle crime and violence within the area.
On July 5, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Caribbean heads of presidency in Trinidad. The leaders addressed the difficulty of weapons being trafficked from the U.S. to the Caribbean.
Blinken introduced that U.S. prosecutor Michael BenAry has been appointed as the primary U.S. coordinator for Caribbean firearms prosecutions.
U.S. Democratic chief Hakeem Jeffries, who led a bipartisan Congressional delegation to Trinidad and Tobago on July 5 for talks with regional leaders, mentioned BenAry’s appointment exhibits “that the USA of America, that Congress, that the Biden administration, has heard the considerations associated to gun trafficking and gun violence right here in Trinidad and Tobago, and all through the Caribbean, and we’re ready to reply decisively to handle it.”