The cur­rent in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­cern­ing St Au­gus­tine res­i­dent Joshua Sama­roo, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing, is “one of the most in­tense in­ves­ti­ga­tions” en­gag­ing the po­lice’s at­ten­tion, says Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

How­ev­er, he de­clined to an­swer ques­tions on the is­sue in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, in­vok­ing the Stand­ing Or­der 27 1g - on pub­lic in­ter­est im­mu­ni­ty - to re­main mum when Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les raised queries on the is­sue.

Gon­za­les first asked Alexan­der what im­me­di­ate steps are be­ing tak­en to en­sure a trans­par­ent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in the Jan­u­ary 20th po­lice in­ci­dent where Sama­roo was killed and his wife Ka­ia Sealy was left paral­ysed. Gon­za­les not­ed CCTV footage ap­peared to show Sama­roo sur­ren­der­ing to po­lice.