THE son of a policewoman, who was also a prime suspect in a murder that happened near his Patna Village, Diego Martin, home last week, was himself shot dead around mid-morning yesterday.

His was one of the three murders that occurred in north Trinidad between 10.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. yesterday .

The body of another man was also found yesterday in a three-foot grave in Valencia but police believe this murder occurred last week. All four murders have pushed the murder toll to 402 for the year. At September 28 last year the murder toll was 401.

Murder-suspect-turned-murder-victim Kellon ’Zongo’ Howard, 22 , was the first to be killed yesterday.

During his relatively short life he had amassed a ’rap sheet as long as meh arm’, said one of the investigators on the Diego Martin scene yesterday afternoon.

According to police sources, around 10.30 a.m. Howard was standing near his North West Drive, Patna Village, Diego Martin home when an armed man walked up to him, pointed his gun at him and squeezed the trigger several times.

Howard, who was hit ’all over’, died on the spot, said the police.

Howard is believed to have killed one man and wounded another at North West Drive last Wednesday night while Clifton Flanders and Daniel Mitchell were liming with some other men on the road.

The duo were ambushed by ’the lone gunman’ who shot them both.

Flanders was killed instantly. Mitchell on the other hand survived the attack and the Express understands that he is still a patient at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

Howard was also on bail for a number of gun-related matters pending in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court.

Michael Mader, 21, was the second murder victim yesterday.

Around 11 a.m. the suspected gang member was walking along Oxford Street which was near his Charford Court, Port of Spain, home when he was ambushed by a gunman who shot him several times.

Mader collapsed on the pavement and was taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital where he died while undergoing surgery.

The third victim was from Arima.

Police didn’t have many details last night, confirming only that a murder had occurred yesterday.

Then there was Rondell Reid whose body was found in the shallow grave yesterday.

Reid, 28, who was also known as ’Half a Man’, had been reported missing since last Thursday.

On Friday, Sangre Grande detectives received ’information’ that Reid had been killed.

Officers began a search for his body and it was yesterday around 2 p.m. that his partially decomposed body was found in a three-foot grave in a dirt track off Nicholas Road in Valencia.

There were several chop wounds about his body.

So far the police have one suspect said to be in his late 20s.

The search is on for another suspect.