A Guyanese man was found dead and another unconscious at a house in Curepe, Trinidad and Tobago, on Wednesday night.
According to Idris Mona, the mother of 44-year-old Kwesi Mona, who had been living in Trinidad for over two decades, she received a call from a relative about her son’s demise.
While the full details are currently unknown, the online version of the Trinidad Express related that the police were summoned to the house around 9.30pm and discovered two naked men; one was dead and the other unconscious.
The men were reportedly lying face down in the room, which showed evidence of being ransacked. They appeared to have been beaten.
Mona’s body was removed for an autopsy and the other man was rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, where he was admitted.
The grieving mother explained that the story surrounding her son’s demise was sketchy. “He’s a security guard over there and his father died about three months ago but he didn’t get to come,” the emotionally distraught woman related to Stabroek News. She said she hadn’t seen him since 2015 and hadn’t heard from him in months.
“All I know is that they found him in a house and I heard something about the door was locked and the police had to break it down to get in,” she added.
Below is a Trinidad Guardian story on the death.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 24-year-old Santa Cruz man is assisting police with their investigation into the murder of his 44-year-old friend Kwesi Mona.
Mona, 44, a Guyanese national, was found dead at his Curepe home on Wednesday night and the man unconscious near him.
Police said around 9.45 pm they received a report from the landlord of an Alice Street apartment complex of a commotion there.
When police arrived they found Mona dead and his friend unconscious. The man was taken to hospital where he remained in a stable condition under police guard last night.
Mona, a security guard, was described by relatives as the life of the party at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday. They said he had been in the country for close to 20 years and was the father of a 16-year-old.
According to his autopsy report, Mona was beaten on the head and strangled with a belt. The cause of death was ligature strangulation, but the several blows to his head resulted in no head trauma, the report stated.
“We don’t know if the murder has to deal with his sexuality. We don’t know if they were hanging out and an argument ensued. He was wonderful, really nice guy, always helpful and loving. All people mattered to him, it didn’t matter if they was gay or straight,” one relative of Mona said.
The relative added that Mona’s way of living should be the way everyone lived.
“He was always the family clown, he would always be the one to bring the jokes and always find something funny to say,” relatives said.