Four months af­ter Joshua Sama­roo was al­leged­ly killed by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing a dra­mat­ic shootout in St Au­gus­tine, the case took a shock­ing twist yes­ter­day, af­ter di­rec­tions were giv­en for his girl­friend, Ka­ia Sealy, to be charged with manslaugh­ter in his death.

The di­rec­tive from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard was hand­ed down hours af­ter the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro an­nounced, dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day morn­ing, that the all-clear had been giv­en for a se­ries of crim­i­nal charges to be laid in the mat­ter but re­fused to say who would be charged or the na­ture of the charges to be laid.

In a sub­se­quent me­dia re­lease, how­ev­er, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­firmed sev­er­al war­rants had been is­sued for the ar­rest of Sealy.