[Updated] Beating victim dies, man shot dead in car

A Cumuto man who lived in Canada for three-quarter of the year and spent the rest of the time hunting and liming with friends in TT was murdered on Friday night.

Neeval Rampersad was due to return to Canada in the second week of March, his younger brother Satish said on Saturday.

"He would spend from March to about October/November or so and come back home for the rest of the year. He used to do farming in Canada and was planning on stopping in about two years because he had enough he said."

According to police, Rampersad, 38, of Thani Trace, Caratal, Cumuto was shot while he and another man were in a car O'Meara Road, Arima. Police reported that Rampersad and Anthony Solozano, of Arena Road, San Raphael were in Solozano's car, a Honda City, when gunmen opened fire on them. The shooting happened around 11.20 pm on Friday. Rampersad died at the scene while Solozano was taken to the Arima Health Facility and then transferred to Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), Mt Hope where he remains warded in a stable condition.

Satish said his brother and Solozano, a retiree, were hunting friends and Friday night they went to lime. He added that Solozano is now fighting for his life. Asked if his brother ever expressed concerns about his safety whenever he returned home, Satish said no, adding that his brother usually came home to relax and spent that time hunting and liming.

Rampersad is the second man who died on Friday at the hands of killers. Roland Anthony Wilson, 66, of 21 Wilson Extension Blanchisseuse Road, Arima died on Friday afternoon, two days after he was brutally attacked.

Police reported that around 6.30 pm on Wednesday, three men, one armed with a firearm and the others with cutlasses, broke into Wilson's home and stole an undisclosed sum of cash, tools and other valuables. During the robbery, they beat Wilson severely. He was taken to the Arima Health Facility and transferred to EWMSC where he died on Friday.

This article has been updated with additional details, below is the original story.

REGION TWO Homicide Bureau are investigating the murders of two men in Arima.

In the first case, a 66-year-old man was beaten during a home invasion on Wednesday but died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), Mt Hope on Friday evening.

According to police, Roland Anthony Wilson of 21 Wilson Extension Blanchisseuse Road, Arima was attacked around 6.30 pm on Wednesday. Police said three men, one armed with a firearm and the others with cutlasses, broke into Wilson's home and stole an undisclosed sum of cash, tools and other valuables. During the robbery, they beat Wilson severely. He was taken to the Arima Health Facility and transferred to EWMSC where he died on Friday.

In the second incident, Neeval Rampersad, 39, of Thani Trace, Caratal, Cumuto was shot while he and another man were in a car O'Meara Road, Arima.

Police reported that Rampersad and Anthony Solozano, 35, of Arena Road, San Raphael were in Solozano's car, a Honda City, when gunmen opened fire on them. The shooting happened around 11.20 pm on Friday.

Rampersad died at the scene while Solozano was taken to the Arima Health Facility and then transferred to EWMSC where he remains warded in a stable condition.