Police are still working to identify the man killed in a shootout with officers who were trying to find O'delle Lalman-Baptiste after she was kidnapped on the night of April 18.

Initial police reports said Lalman-Baptiste was in a Hyundai H-100 van being driven by her husband along Hospital Road, Carlsen Field, on April 18 when he stopped and got out to urinate at the side of the road around 11 pm. A black Nissan X-Trail allegedly pulled up and two men got out and robbed him of $1,500 and two cell phones before jumping in the van and driving off with Lalman-Baptiste.

About half an hour after it was stolen, police used GPS to track the van along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway close to the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Centre. North Central Task Force intercepted it and a shootout ensued after two armed men jumped out of the van. One of the suspects escaped and the other, who was injured in the shootout, was declared dead on arrival at the Arima General Hospital. Police still had not identified the dead suspect up to press time.