(Trinidad Express) – Brothers and liming partners Stephen Osbourne, 28, and Addil Osbourne, 19, were slain on Monday morning by the occupants of a jeep that followed them as they made their way home from a beach lime.
As the two brothers-both construction workers at the Renaissance at Shorelands Condominium Towers in Glencoe-were making their way along Saddle Road in Maraval, they noticed the jeep following them and got suspicious.
Police said the driver of the vehicle the brothers were in, identified as Kayode Donawa, 31, was also shot. He remained in a critical condition at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
Their killings took the toll to 140 for the year.
According to reports, after the brothers noticed the jeep following them, Donawa slowed to allow it to pass. Instead, the vehicle pulled alongside and its occupants opened fire on the Osbournes.
The elder Osbourne was shot in the waist and died on the scene. His younger brother was taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital, but was pronounced dead by the time he got there.
Relatives said they could not figure out why the brothers were killed, as they were not known to be involved in gangs and were known as non-confrontational individuals.
“They were the type that would turn their back and walk away,” Stephen Osbourne Sr said at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, as he awaited the autopsies on the bodies of his sons.
Relatives said the registration number of the jeep was passed on to police and they hoped justice would be served.
“The way it going, everybody living in hope and fear,” Joy Johnson, the boys’ mother, said about the state of crime in the country.
Investigations into the incident are continuing.
