‘Sprang’ charged with 2020 New Grant quadruple murder

A 42-year-old man has been charged with the 2020 shooting deaths of four people – a Venezuelan woman and three men.

Clint “Sprang” Charles, of First Branch Trace, Monkey Town in New Grant, was charged on February 24 and was expected to face a master in the South B Criminal Court.

Insp Persad of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region Three, charged him with the murders of Guimar Jose Rausseo Marcano, 35, and another Venezuelan, Jose Serrano, as well as Marcano’s boyfriend Aaron George, 36, and Darnel Mitchell, 35.

All four were shot in the head.

A farmer found the bodies on May 25, 2020, in an agricultural area off Daly Road in New Grant.

The lone female was a mother of four who worked as a housekeeper. She was renting an apartment at Hope Road in Princes Town.

He is the fourth accused held in connection with the murders.

In July 2020, Anthony “Pookie” Mitchell, of St Croix Road in Princes Town was charged with the murders.

Two months later, in September 2020, his brother Akeem “Yellows” Mitchell was charged. The third accused, Shakeel “Takka” Jemmott, of New Grant was charged in December 2021.