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Days af­ter two men were killed dur­ing a pur­port­ed shootout with po­lice in San­gre Grande, T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, act­ing ASP Gideon Dick­son, says while all in­ci­dents of po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings are con­cern­ing, added at­ten­tion should al­so be placed on the pro­lif­er­a­tion of high-pow­ered guns and the preva­lence of vi­o­lent of­fend­ers still free to con­tin­ue at­tack­ing per­sons.

On Sun­day, Shyein Tran­coso and off-du­ty sol­dier En­rique Gar­cia were con­front­ed by po­lice in Jairas­ingh Vil­lage.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, of­fi­cers tried to in­ter­cept the red Hon­da Vezel both men were in at the time but were shot at by the sus­pects. Po­lice re­turned fire killing both men. An AR-15 and 25 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion were found in the car.