West Indies Detective Killed; Shot, Thrown From Bridge
Officer Down: Constable Derrick Nelson - [Trinidad , ]
|Constable Derrick Nelson succumbed to injuries on June 7, that he suffered when was shot by bandits then thrown over a bridge. |
He fell some 25 feet.
Nelson died at 10:45 a.m. at San Fernando General Hospital. He was lived in St. Augustine, Trinidad.
Nelson, 37, was a police bodyguard assigned to protect Judge Herbert Volney. While on duty, he was ambushed and shot in both knees then thrown over a bridge. Before he was tossed over the bridge he was robbed of $600 and his pistol.
He will be given a military funeral.
Investigations are continuing into his violent and senseless death.