{"id":8158,"date":"2014-05-04T03:41:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T07:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2014-05-04T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:45:34","slug":"breaking-news-dana-seetahal-sc-was-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8158","title":{"rendered":"Dana Seetahal Murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/dana_seetahal.jpg' width='125' height='187' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Dana Seetahal' \/><big><b>Dana Seetahal, SC was assassinated around 12:05 a.m. while driving through Woodbrook.<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Ms Seetahal was just minutes away from her One Woodbrook Place home when she was gunned down in Woodbrook just after midnight this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Concerned residents of the area reported hearing an \u201cexplosion\u201d of shots and called the police who arrived 15 minutes after the shooting to find Ms Seetahal\u2019s lifeless body slumped over the driver\u2019s wheel, her foot still on the brake pedal.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPolice reports confirm that upon reaching the Hamilton-Holder St., a Nissan Wingroad drove ahead of her Volkswagon SUV and then pulled in front of her, blocking her access as another vehicle, described as a panel van pulled alongside of her and shots were fired directly at her from the occupants of that vehicle.  <\/p>\n<p>The bullets struck her in the head and about her body.  Both vehicles thereafter fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Daly, SC caustically noted on CCN TV6&#8217;s early morning coverage with Dominic Kallipersad that Trinidadians have a history of talk without action.  He observed that we had become somewhat inured to the horrendous nature of the crimes being committed, that we were content to talk for a few days and then forget thereafter as was the case with the coke haul in the juice cans scandal.  He affirmed his position that if authorities are serious about dealing effectively with the crime then they would fund social development programmes which would deal with the cause of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><big><b>Seetahal Assassinated<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Derek Achong<br \/>\nSunday, May 4, 2014 &#8211; guardian.co.tt<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The country woke up to news that a senior attorney at the criminal bar was gunned down this morning, in what police have described as a &#8220;professional&#8221; hit.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Dana Seetahal was shot dead at about 12.05 am as she was driving north along Hamilton-Holder Street, Woodbrook when  two vehicles pulled alongside her causing her to come to a stop near the Woodbrook Youth Club.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2014-05-04\/seetahal-assassinated\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><big><b><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/BREAKING-NEWS---Dana-Seetahal-murdered-257834591.html\">$1 million reward in Dana Seetahal murder<\/A><\/b><\/big><br \/>\nA $1 million reward is being offered by Crime Stoppers for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the murder of attorney Dana Seetahal.<\/p>\n<p><Big><b>Dana Seetahal murdered<\/b><\/Big><\/p>\n<p>At about 12:05 a.m. senior counsel Dana Seetahal was in her Volkswagen SUV proceeding north along Hamilton-Holder street, Woodbrook when upon reaching the vicinity of the Woodbrook Youth Club two vehicles pulled alongside her causing her to come to a stop.<\/p>\n<p>One of the vehicles, a Nissan Wingroad, then drove ahead a short distance and pulled across the road, blocking it. The other vehicle which was described as a panel van pulled alongside and the occupants of that vehicle pulled out their firearms and opened fire on the SUV.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/BREAKING-NEWS---Dana-Seetahal-murdered-257834591.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A> <\/p>\n<p><big><b>Dana Seetahal murdered<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal was murdered in Woodbrook shortly after midnight on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the killing may be a hit.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the attorney had left a casino and was driving along Hamilton Holder Street, alongside the Woodbrook Youth Facility when two motorcars pulled up alongside her Volkswagen SUV forcing the attorney to stop.<\/p>\n<p>One of the vehicles, a Nissan Wingroad pulled in front of the vehicle blocking the road.<\/p>\n<p>The other vehicle, which is believed a panel van pulled alongside the senior counsel&#8217;s vehicle. Gunmen emerged from the van and opened fire on the attorney. The two vehicles then sped off.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctntworld.com\/cnews2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=9937:dana-seetahal-murdered&#038;catid=137&#038;Itemid=707\">Full Article : ctntworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Seetahal, SC was assassinated around 12:05 a.m. while driving through Woodbrook. Ms Seetahal was just minutes away from her One Woodbrook Place home when she was gunned down in Woodbrook just after midnight this morning. Concerned residents of the area reported hearing an \u201cexplosion\u201d of shots and called the police who arrived 15 minutes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dana Seetahal Murdered<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,178,895,8],"tags":[44,258],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-media","category-murder-2","category-violence","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-dana-seetahal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8182,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}