A St James fam­i­ly is griev­ing the loss of one of its youngest mem­bers af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing shoot­ing in Dun­don­ald Hill.

Po­lice said 25-year-old Joseph Sut­ton and his 11-month-old son Jay­den were asleep at their home around 1 am when their pet dog be­gan bark­ing. A rel­a­tive went to check the dis­tur­bance when a gun­man pushed a firearm through a bed­room win­dow and opened fire, hit­ting both fa­ther and son be­fore flee­ing on foot.

Both were tak­en by rel­a­tives to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where they were pro­nounced dead short­ly af­ter.