ENRIQUE RUPERT and ZAINAB KAMARA
THE family of 64-year-old Chaguanas farmer Rolly Brown, also known as Boyie, is demanding answers after he was fatally shot by police who were investigating a conspiracy to murder early on May 23.
A police report said around 4.30 am on May 23 after "meticulous and diligent investigations," the Anti-Extortion Unit, assisted by the Central Division Task Force Area North, went to Soogrim Trace Reserve, Endeavour Road in Chaguanas in search of Brown, who they know by the alias Aki.
When the police arrived, they announced themselves. Police said Brown then pulled out a gun and shot at them.
Police shot back, and Brown was hit multiple times about his body.
They took him to the Chaguanas Health Facility where he died on arrival. Other police secured the scene.
[caption id="attachment_1156905" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The bed on which Rolly Brown was shot at in his home in Soogrim Trace, Chaguanas on May 23. - Photo by Grevic Alvarado[/caption]
Crime Scene Officers seized various things of "evidential value" including a brown and black shotgun.
No police were injured during the operation and investigations by the Anti-Extortion Unit were still ongoing.
The police report also said the report of conspiracy to murder took place on April 10 in the Chaguanas Police District.
Newsday visited Brown's family in Chaguanas on May 24, who were still in disbelief and grieving his death.
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They spoke on the condition of anonymity fearing police backlash.
"Boyie had his moods. He had his happy time, he had the time where he'll quarrel, like any other person."
She said she spoke to Brown hours before he was killed. Asked if Brown had a criminal history, she said, "The only thing he probably had was a restraining order from his ex-wife. Any matter other than family matters, I do not know of."
The family said through the grief, the police have given them a runaround thus far.
"We hitting dead ends everywhere we go. Is just answers we want. What went on? Why police kill Boyie? The allegations, we know nothing of that.
"We found out about his death on social media. Up to now, police have not contacted us."
The family said around 8 am on May 23, they went to Brown's Soogrim Trace home and found the place opened.
They also saw a suitcase, which Brown used to store important documents, had been opened and the documents were missing.
[caption id="attachment_1156904" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Police shot and killed farmer Rolly "Boyie" Brown at his home in Soogrim Trace, Chaguanas on May 23. They claim he shot at them and they returned fire in self defence. - Photo by Grevic Alvarado[/caption]
"His ID card, all the papers for the land, birth paper, everything missing. We tried going to the police station who gave us a number for someone in the Anti-Extortion Unit. The police answered and asked for time to respond. We calling him now and no answer.
"We went by the funeral home, but they said we
