The grandmother of a man murdered in Mr D’or, Champ Fleurs, yesterday, was left questioning why her grandchild had to return to the country only to become a murder statistic.
Eileen De Gannes, who arrived at First Private Road, Mt’ Dor, after seeing Isaiah Neptune’s body on social media, said the young man recently returned to Trinidad to care for a house his deceased father had left him. De Gannes said her grandchild lived at Cunupia and Valsayn.
“Look how Droopy lying down on the ground like a dog nah! What he doing up here, why he come up here? Why he come back here to get killed? He was in the States, why he come back?” De Gannes lamented.
Neptune, 30, was found around 10.30 am after residents reported hearing gunshots in the relatively quiet neighbourhood. He was found without his shoes and a school bag found a short distance from his body is believed to be his.
A male relative said Neptune, of Dyette Street, Cunupia, was “always in the latest brands” and said he believed his killer may have stolen his Air Jordan sneakers. Police said Neptune, who also had a house in Valsayn, may have been killed after visiting a female companion in the area.
In an unrelated incident, Kendall Trim, a well known Chaguanas “PH” taxi driver, was hijacked, shot and left for dead on Tuesday night.
Police said Trim, 27, of Dass Trace, Enterprise, was hired by three men to take them to Santa Flora while plying his Nissan B14 along his usual Old Southern Main Road, Chase Village route shortly after 9 pm.
Police said when the men reached Santa Flora they shot Trim several times in the upper body, threw him out the vehicle and escaped with his vehicle.
Residents assisted Trim and called the Santa Flora Police Station, where an all-points bulletin was subsequently issued. Police said Trim was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital, where he died while undergoing medical treatment.
South Western Division Task Force and Highway Patrol officers responded and spotted the vehicle heading north along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway. They later intercepted the car near Couva, but the suspects ran out the vehicle and began shooting. Police responded and one of the suspects was shot in the knee. The wounded suspect was arrested while one of his accomplices was also subdued and arrested. A third suspect managed to escape but police said an arrest is imminent.
The two suspects, aged 19 and 25 , are said to be from the Springvale, Claxton Bay area.
