(Trinidad Express) A TEENAGER on his way to share Sunday lunch with his mother was shot dead in John John, East Port of Spain, yesterday.
The victim was identified by police as Shakeel Aberdeen, 16.
Police said Aberdeen and his 12-year-old brother were walking through a track in Africa, John John when four men armed with guns approached them from behind around 11 a.m.
The killers told the younger brother to run home before shooting Aberdeen to the back of his head and back, police said. Aberdeen died on the spot.
Police investigators were unable to give a motive for the killing.
Aberdeen’s mother, Sherma Critchlow, who arrived at the murder scene, said her children were staying by a relative a few houses lower down from where she lives.
“For no reason they just shot him in his head and his back and the thing is he was coming up by me for a meal but if ah know that this would have happened to him I would have come to him,” she said.
Police officers who were at the scene of the multiple fatality accident in Sea Lots had to respond to the murder scene to preserve any evidence.
Detectives of the Homicide Bureau and officers of the Crime Scene Unit subsequently arrived on the scene and Aberdeen’s body was taken to the Port of Spain Mortuary.
Homicide Bureau officers are continuing investigations.
The murder toll stood at 73 up to last night according to an Express tally, while the murder toll for the comparable period last year stood at 60.
