Police are yet to identify the body of a man who was found with a gunshot wound to his head in La Romaine yesterday.
Checks were being made to the missing persons database and fingerprints were taken yesterday as up to late yesterday, no one came forward to claim the body.
Police said around 3.30 am a passerby alerted officers who were on patrol to the body. On checking 20 metres into the bushes off Pluck Road, they found the body of a “heavily built,” Afro-Trinidadian man, who appeared to be in his early 30s.
He wore a pair of three-quarter khaki pants and purple vest and had a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
The body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre, St James, where an autopsy will be done once it is identified.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Fernando Police Station at 652-3206, 652–2858, 652-1771or the Crime Stoppers at 800-8477.