Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau and the Port-of-Spain CID were kept busy on Car­ni­val Mon­day as a 19-year-old man was killed and two peo­ple were shot in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Wood­brook and Ari­api­ta Av­enue, St James.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment yes­ter­day morn­ing, Car­ni­val Gold Com­man­der and Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin con­firmed that a man was stabbed to death at the cor­ner of De Ver­teuil Street and Ari­api­ta Av­enue dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions.