Two Men Killed, Police Officer Wounded in Buccoo Shootout

Trinidad and Tobago’s Police Complaints Authority says it is often learning about police shootings from media reports instead of being notified directly as law requires, raising fears its records undercount the true number of cases. As of Oct. 7, it had 257 open shooting probes, including 180 fatal incidents involving 231 victims. The TTPS disputes the PCA’s claims and stands by its own lower figures.

Police say the second man killed in Thursday night’s Tobago shooting is a Trinidadian from Toco, though no relative has yet formally identified the body. Jamal Clarke, 24, died at the scene after officers intercepted a car in Buccoo and exchanged gunfire with the occupants; a police officer wounded in the incident is stable, and an independent investigation will be held.

A police shooting in Buccoo, Tobago, left two men dead and one officer injured after officers stopped a silver Aqua car on Golden Grove Road on Thursday evening. The father of 24-year-old Jamal Clarke says his son was unarmed and was murdered by police, and plans to file a complaint as the case raises concerns about police use of force and crime response in Tobago.

A Tobago father is accusing police of murdering his 24-year-old son, Jamal Clarke, after Clarke and another man were killed in a gunfight with officers during a covert operation in Buccoo on Thursday night. Police said the men opened fire first, while the family is demanding an independent investigation through the Police Complaints Authority.

Police say one gun was recovered after a deadly shootout on Golden Grove Road, Buccoo, in which Jamal Clarke, 24, and another man were killed. Officers intercepted a silver Aqua acting on intelligence, exchanged gunfire with the occupants, and one officer was also injured and hospitalised overnight.

Police in Tobago are investigating a Tuesday night shootout in Buccoo that left 24-year-old Jamal Clarke and another suspect dead, while one officer was injured and is stable in hospital. Clarke’s father has accused police of killing his son, saying he had spoken to him minutes earlier and was told he was going for a haircut.

Two suspected gunmen were killed and a police officer injured after officers exchanged fire with occupants of a silver Toyota Aqua on Golden Grove Road, Buccoo, Tobago, on Wednesday night. One man was identified as Jamal Clarke, alias “Shilo,” and the shooting was Tobago’s first fatal police-involved incident of 2026, coming as new anti-crime measures and security posts are rolled out on the island.

Two suspected gunmen were killed and a police officer injured in a shootout with police in Buccoo, Tobago, on Wednesday night, after officers intercepted a silver Toyota Aqua on Golden Grove Road. The clash is Tobago’s first police-involved fatal shooting of 2026 and comes days after the Special Operations Bill, which gives authorities stronger anti-crime powers on the island.

Two men were killed in a shootout with police on Golden Grove Road in southwest Tobago on Thursday evening after officers on covert duty tried to approach their vehicle. One police officer was injured and taken to Scarborough General Hospital, while authorities said the scene was still being processed and more details would be released Friday.