(Trinidad Express) Killers came by sea to kill three men on the Icacos Beach in Cedros before daybreak yesterday.
Two were shot dead and a third died when his throat was slit, police said.
The gunmen came in a boat at Icacos Point, the south western tip of Trinidad, where a Venezuelan migrant village had been set up near the fishing port.
The deceased were 36-year-old Icacos fisherman Kareem Celestine, Joshua Zaheim Sadoo, 21, of Point Fortin and a man known only as Darko of Gun Hill, Point Fortin.
The injured persons, a man and woman, both Venezuelans, were 45-year-old Denys Gonzales and Rosangela Carolina Gonzales, 24.
Police said the masked gunmen entered the campsite, where several people were asleep, and opened fire around 2 a.m.
The men, women and children, began running into the darkness.
Villagers heard the rapid gunfire and called the police.
Sadoo was found dead inside a vehicle, where he had been sleeping. He was shot in the chest and his throat slit.
Celestine and Darko were found lying face down on the sand behind the camp. Both men were shot in the head.
The Express spoke with Celestine’s father, Pascal Celestine, who said he heard the gunfire at his home not far from the beach.
“My son stayed in a camp on the beach with some fellas but he would come home to bathe and change. So he left around 7 p.m yesterday (Wednesday) and shortly before three this morning I heard rapid gunfire, silence, rapid gunfire again, silence, then some shots. It sounded like it was coming from the beach so I began calling my son’s phone and he did not answer,” he said.
Pascal said he received a call minutes later that several people were shot at the beach. He went to the beach, calling his son’s phone but still there was no answer.
“I saw the man in the car. He was dead but we didn’t see anyone else and I couldn’t find my son. Then someone said two men were behind the camp. I went back and he was lying down face down on the sand. He and the other man,” the father said.
He said Celestine worked on the beach assisting fishing boats into the water.
“I don’t know what these men do. My son didn’t have no beef with nobody. He working there pushing down boat with a tractor,” he said.
Pascal said his son was a father of a seven-year-old boy.
The Express yesterday found Celestine’s mother, Kathleen Holder, at the campsite gathering her son’s belongings.
She said she had spent the afternoon at the site talking to her son the day before.
Sadoo’s relatives were not willing to speak about the incident when the Express visited their home yesterday.
