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Police kill suspected kidnapper in Tabaquite

A MAN described by police as a known kidnapping and robbery offender was killed in a shootout with officers in Tabaquite early on January 25. Initial reports said officers of the Central Division's extortion unit were searching for Ronnie Alexander, 40, of Laventille, in the Tabaquite area. Newsday understands there was a shootout between the suspect and officers at a house along Motta Street shortly before 6 am. Alexander was injured in the exchange and taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility, where he was pronounced dead. Alexander is the sixth person to be killed by police this month, during the state of emergency which was declared on December 30 last year. In the first incident, on January 21, three suspected robbers were killed in an alleged shootout with Central Division officers after a robbery at Da Hua supermarket in Cunupia. In an unrelated incident, police shot dead Shakeem Nickie, also known as Fabi, 22, on January 22 at Eastern Quarry, Laventille. Police responding to a report of a man being chopped in Dan Kelly, Eastern Quarry, claimed they saw Nickie attacking the man. Nickie was shot once in the torso and declared dead at the Port of Spain General Hospital. A day later, an unidentified man was killed in a shootout with police in Claxton Bay. Police said Central Division Task Force officers were on patrol on January 23 when, around 9 pm, they received a tip-off about gunmen in a blue Hyundai H100 van along Dump Road. They tried to intercept the van but claimed they were shot at. They returned fire, hitting a suspect. An AR-15 rifle was seized in that operation. The victim was taken to the Couva Health Facility, where he was pronounced dead. The post Police kill suspected kidnapper in Tabaquite appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.