In Princes Town just after midnight, two gunmen pulled off what looks like a hit. They blocked a white Nissan Sentra on Malgretoute Road, stepped out, and unloaded into the car without saying a word. Then they vanished into the night.
The driver, 30-year-old Isaiah Cruickshank from Manahambre Road, took several rounds and is now barely hanging on at San Fernando General Hospital. But the passenger, Monifer Carrie, 27, from Beetham Gardens, didn’t make it. She was pronounced dead at the Princes Town Health Facility at 12:36 a.m.
Here’s how cops say it went down: Around 12:05 a.m., Cruickshank was driving along with Carrie next to him. Another vehicle suddenly emerged from Manahambre Branch Road and cut them off. Two men got out and started shooting. Multiple rounds tore through the Nissan before the shooters fled the scene.
No words. No warning. Just bullets.
A relative who rushed over after hearing the commotion found Carrie already on the roadway. Emergency responders did what they could, but she was gone. Cruickshank was still breathing but in bad shape — bad enough that docs had to transfer him to a bigger hospital for a fighting chance.
Police from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region Three, are handling the case. They’re not saying much yet. No arrests. No known motive. Just that it was “targeted” — meaning somebody wanted to send a message, and Carrie and Cruickshank were the ones caught in it.
The neighborhood is on edge. People are scared. When a coordinated attack like this goes down in the open street, with nobody in cuffs and no reason given, trust starts to crack. Residents want answers. They want to know who these gunmen were and whether more violence is coming.
For now, all Princes Town has is a dead woman, a man barely alive, and a whole lot of silence.
