A 16-year-old student who allegedly witnessed the fatal shooting of student Tamika Griffith on Tuesday remains in police custody.
The boy, a relative of Tamika’s, was due to be questioned by homicide detectives on Friday.
The class four student was arrested by the police shortly after the incident and reportedly told police that a man asked him to keep the gun for him, in exchange for $ 150 a week.
Investigators are looking for the man who allegedly gave the boy the firearm and the firearm.
Tamika was hit by a firearm bullet in her relatives’ apartment at Sookoo Trace, in Claxton Bay.
The student, who lived on Corial Road, Iere Village, Princes Town, was staying with relatives in the apartment.
The police arrived at the apartment around 3 pm and found the teenager at the scene.
He initially reportedly told the police that he went to a nearby store when he heard an explosion and, when he returned to the apartment, watched his cousin with a shot in the face on the sofa in the living room.
The officers found Tamika lying on a couch with a gunshot wound to the head above her right eye and panting.
The report states that police officers placed her on a brown carpet in the living room and took her to San Fernando General Hospital.
She died during emergency treatment.
Inspector Ramlogan of the Southern Police Division recovered a worn nine-millimeter capsule in the living room.
While in custody and in the presence of his mother, he reportedly told the police that a few days earlier a relative of his brought a firearm and asked him to keep it, and he will receive $ 150 a week to protect it.
He reportedly told the police that he put it in a bag in his bedroom wardrobe.
On Tuesday, around 1 pm, he reportedly removed the gun from the wardrobe and showed it to Tamika.
The police report said that while she held the gun, he took it out when the gun went off and shot her.
The police were informed that the student told the male relative what had happened, and the relative went to the apartment, took the gun and left.
An autopsy was expected to be done on the body this week at the Forensic Science Center on Friday.
PC Mathura continues to investigate.