POLICE killed a man and his girlfriend in Bamboo Village, Valsayn less than 12 hours after Police Complaints Authority director David West described the increase in police shootings this year as disturbing.
At around 4.50 am on March 21, police from the Anti-Corruption Unit went to a two-storey house with apartments at Samaroo Trace, Bamboo No 3, as part of their investigation into allegations of extortion.
Police said they entered the compound and someone in a ground floor apartment began shooting at them. They shot back in keeping with the use-of-force policy.
Police say two people, a man and a woman, were injured. They were taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope where they both died.
The man has been identified as Paul Bacchus and the woman, who neighbours identified as Bacchus’s girlfriend Andraz Rodriguez, is believed to be a non-national.