A 16-year-old boy who allegedly witnessed the fatal shooting of Tamika Griffith, a schoolgirl from Princes Town, remains in police custody on Tuesday.
The boy, a relative of Tamika, was expected to be questioned Friday by homicide detectives.
The fourth-form student was detained by police shortly after the incident and allegedly told officers that a man had asked him to keep the firearm for him in exchange for $ 150 a week.
Investigators are looking for the man who allegedly gave the boy the gun and the firearm.
Tamika was hit by a gunshot in her relatives’ Sookoo Trace apartment in Claxton Bay.
The school, which lived on Corial Road, Iere Village, Princes Town, had stayed with relatives in the apartment.
Police arrived at the apartment around 3 pm and met the teenage boy inside.
He allegedly initially told police that he went to a nearby store when he heard an explosion, and when he returned to the apartment, he saw his cousin with a gunshot wound to the face on the sofa in the living room.
Officers found Tamika lying on a couch, with a gunshot wound to the head above the right eye and panting for breath.
The report said officers placed her on a brown carpet in the living room and took her to San Fernando General Hospital.
He died during emergency treatment.
Inspector Ramlogan of the Southern Police Division recovered a nine-millimeter carcass spent in the living room.
While in custody and in the presence of his mother, he allegedly told police that a few days earlier a male relative had brought a firearm and asked him to keep it for himself and would be paid 150. dollars a week to protect him.
He reportedly told police he put it in a bag in the closet in his room.
On Tuesday, around 1 pm, he allegedly took the gun out of his wardrobe and showed it to Tamika.
The police report said that while she was in possession of the weapon, he took it from her when the weapon was unloaded and shot her.
The police were told that the schoolboy told the male relative what had happened, and the relative came to the apartment and took the firearm and left.
An autopsy was expected to be performed on his body this week at the Forensic Science Center on Friday.
PC Mathura continues investigations.