US deportee chased, killed

Trinidad Express
Friday, April 23rd 2010

A US deportee was shot dead after being chased outside his home by unknown assailants during the early hours of yesterday morning.

Rahim ’Madman’ Thompson, 41, was shot several times about the body after he was chased three quarters of a mile from his Africa, Plaisance Road, John John home, and shot again along the roadway, 100 feet from the Tecia Henry Peace Accord billboard.

Schoolchildren attending the nearby St Philip’s Primary School looked on in amazement as Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) from the Special Anti-Crime Unit of T&T (Sautt), took swabs from Thompson’s hands as his body lay in a drain.

’Mummy, what happened to that man over there (in the drain)?’ a girl asked her mother as they walked alongside a police caution tape towards the school.

Several areas along Spree Simon Road, Plaisance Road and lower Picton Road were cordoned off as CSI took more than five hours to process the crime scene, which started outside Thompson’s home, leading outside the basketball court.

This caused inconvenience to the travelling public, who were forced to walk from John John to Port of Spain as the route was impassable by vehicles.