A Ca­roni man who was ac­cus­tomed to dri­ving his friend to the Cen­tral Mar­ket, Port-of-Spain, as part of a week­ly rit­u­al, was am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times and left to die on the road, in what po­lice be­lieve could be a rob­bery.

The 60-year-old, who lives at Riv­er Branch Road, Kel­ly Vil­lage, was dis­cov­ered ly­ing along San­ta Mon­i­ca Trace, El Car­men Vil­lage, St He­le­na. He had re­port­ed­ly been on his way to col­lect his 69-year-old friend.

The friend who found him told po­lice the vic­tim was ac­cus­tomed to pick­ing him up by 2 am on agreed days, so they could go to the whole­sale mar­ket where they usu­al­ly pur­chased fruits and veg­eta­bles to re­tail in Ca­roni. The friend said he be­came con­cerned when the vic­tim didn’t ar­rive by 2.15 am, and all calls to his cell­phone went unan­swered.