A home invasion in Claxton Bay on Wednesday night turned deadly as a man and his common-law wife were shot dead and their 12 -year-old daughter injured.
Just after midnight, gunmen invaded the Hill Top Drive, Claxton Bay home of Devon Drayton, 35 and Asha George, 30.
Their elder daughter, 14, told police she was lying on a mattress with her parents and her younger sister when they heard knocking on the door and two men entered the house.
The teenager snuck out through a door and ran through a track to a neighbour’s house as she heard loud explosions behind her.
When the police got to the house, the door was locked but the officers managed to pull it open.
They found the 12-year-old girl standing at the door, bleeding from a wound to her head. Her hands were also covered in blood.
Officers took her to the Couva Health Facility.
In a bedroom, the police found the bodies of the girls’ parents.
Police have no motive for the murders.