Clarence Rampersadsingh
October 21, 2007
San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago Express
Monday, October 22nd 2007

Death on last trip
Killer shoots taxi-driver, then boards maxi

Keino Swamber, South Bureau
        
A 49-year-old taxi-driver was shot dead yesterday by a man who walked up to him and asked him if he was going to Penal.

The man, said to be in his twenties, was caught a few minutes later by police who found him sitting in a Chaguanas maxi-taxi on nearby Penitence Street, San Fernando.

Clarence Rampersadsingh is said to have told the man that he was not returning to Penal since it was his last trip. He was shot in his chest.

Several eyewitnesses told police that there was no argument between the two before the shot was fired.

Rampersadsingh, of Bhownath Trace, Batchiya Village, Penal, was standing outside his taxi which was parked on High Street ,San Fernando when the incident occurred at around 4pm.

The shooter then ran down Mon Chagrin Street and into the maxi-taxi where he was arrested.

Personnel in an ambulance, which was passing along High Street minutes after the shooting, attended to Rampersadsingh and rushed him to the nearby San Fernando General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Officers of the Homicide Bureau are continuing investigations.

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