T&T’s ‘most wanted’ killed near police station
(Trinidad Guardian) One of the country’s most “Wanted” and “Dangerous” men was gunned down several feet away from the Freeport Police Station seconds after he walked out from the charge room on Saturday night.
It is suspected that the assailants followed Haradath “H” Solomon, 42, of Mission Road, Freeport, to the station, where he had gone to get his book signed by officers as proof that he was still in the country on orders handed down by a magistrate in a court matter he was involved in.
The gunmen waited outside the station along the Mission Road until he walked out and then they drove past him with and the occupants opened fire on their target.
Solomon was hit just outside the Lotto and Play Whe booth just west of the station, less than 100 feet away.
Crime Scene Investigators who processed the scene on Saturday night recovered over 16 spent shells on the scene. The incident occurred at about 7 pm.
According to police sources, Solomon was put on the police’s “radar” about five months ago, after they received intelligence that he was planning a high-profile kidnapping. He had many places of abode, including Morvant and Arima.
At the crime scene, several relatives of Solomon showed up but did not comment on his death. However, a close associate of Solomon told Guardian Media that while he was on the police watch list, Solomon “in the end, was not ever convicted on any crimes...being a suspect doesn’t mean he was really involved in anything that the police said he was in...all are innocent until proven guilty...but what I can say is that for a long time people wanted him dead...He was a businessman in his own rights.”