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In a surreal tableau that starkly captured the deepening crisis of violent crime in Trinidad and Tobago, a church crusade caravan passed by the aftermath

of a deadly shooting at Lachoos and Bajnath Road in Penal, around 2 p.m. on Sunday. The caravan’s loudspeakers rang out with praise and gospel music as they rolled past Shantila's Bar, where a man known only as "Suckie" lay dead at the scene. Another man, wounded in the attack, was rushed to the hospital.

Several automatic weapons were used in the killing, police say, and two men were involved.