A 24-year-old man was shot dead at a poultry depot yesterday.

Sunil Sookdeo was at the Chicken Cheap depot at Guapo/Cap-de-Ville Main Road in Point Fortin when, at around 1.20 p.m., two men walked in and asked to have a chicken cut up.

Sookdeo, who was with another man at the depot, told the men that they were through with cutting chicken for the day and only had whole chickens available.

The other employee, who was unharmed, told police that the men then pulled ’Marvin Gaye’ hats over their faces and fired a shot which hit Sookdeo in the head. The men then fled the scene.

Sookdeo was the son of McLean Sookdeo, the owner of the depot, and lived at Reid Road, Point Fortin. The depot is located next to the Roman Catholic Church of St Anthony.

At the scene yesterday, Sookdeo’s mother was inconsolable and unable to speak.

Inspector Celestine Phillip and officers of the Point Fortin Police Station and Homicide Bureau are continuing investigations.

Meanwhile the body found in the Heights of Aripo on Saturday afternoon has been identified as that of Gerard Samaroo.

Samaroo, 52, a taxi driver, of Picton Road Extension, Sangre Grande was reported missing by relatives on Friday night after leaving home to attend a health meeting in North Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande. His Nissan B-13 motor car remains missing. An autopsy is expected to be performed today.

And in South Trinidad, Kenson Rodney was up to late yesterday, fighting for his life after being shot six times by a gunman on Saturday night.

Rodney, 26, was standing outside building 12 at Carlton Lane, San Fernando when, at around 8.35 p.m., the gunman walked up to him and asked him the whereabouts of another person.

It is alleged that Rodney told the man he didn’t know who he was asking and was shot in his stomach.

He is at the San Fernando General Hospital.