BY INDARJIT SEURAJ
Hours after the slaying of WPC Elizabeth Sutherland, her husband Ivan, daughter Anika and family friend Kevin Serrette, police shot and killed a suspect who they claimed shot at them first during questioning on the murders.
But relatives of 25-year-old Tor John, also known as Cat, have since claimed he was executed” as a reprisal for the slaying seven hours earlier.
In an interview at John’s home at Village Council, Trou Macaque, Laventille, yesterday, uncle Ian John described the shooting as “murder.”
John called on the authorities to investigate the matter, and remained puzzled as to why his nephew would be a suspect for the slayings when he was not close to the scene when they were killed.
My nephew was liming with we, right!” he said.
John said he awoke at around 3.30 am to hear the fate his nephew had suffered.
According to Ian, three police officers wearing task force uniforms and ski-masks boarded Tor’s home asking for him and another man, while three soldiers stood at the foot of the hill.
Tor was taken downstairs, made to kneel against a three-foot refrigerator and was shot once in his head, he said.
John said the officers then fired three shots into a steel gate before dragging Tor’s body to the police jeep parked down the hill, some 150 feet below.
“They take him and drag him like a dog from where the incident happen to straight down the road and all you hearing is ‘throw him in the van, throw him in the van,’” he said.
As residents ventured out of their houses to see the commotion, shots were fired in the air and they were warned to go back in.
Also startling, John said, was that after they (police) had taken Tor’s body away, on visiting the scene there were no shells on the floor of the enclosed room where he was shot.
John said the officers fired a shot at the home of John Alexander shattering a window before telling him: “Go back inside; you too so-and-so fas.”
We already know they is police. We want to know why they wearing masks,” John said.
We want to know why the police had to come and bus’ his skull.”
Tor’s father Artwright John described his son as “a nice guy.”
He said despite his son having a marijuana case, for which he went to court on Monday, he had no other run-ins with the law.
I want to know who really do it and why,” John said.
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