A Laventille teen was fatally shot in downtown Port-of-Spain on Wednesday night.
Residents of Duncan Street, Port-of-Spain, called the police after hearing gunshots at around 8 pm. When police arrived they found Shaquille Farrell, 17, of Eastern Quarry, Laventille, lying in a basketball court with a gunshot wound to his left eye. He was pronounced dead at the scene by a District Medical Officer (DMO).
Homicide detectives said Farrell was probably killed because of a dispute with gang members from the area.
At the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, the teen’s grandparents said he was the third member of the family to be murdered. His father was killed when he was a baby and his uncle was murdered years later.
Farrell’s grandfather, Standford Moses, said he and his wife raised him after his mother left him with them shortly after his father’s death.
He said while his grandson was always loving and kind to them, he began having behavioural problems and began smoking marijuana when he was just 12-years-old.
“Is since after that he change. He did not want to go to school because he say is weed have him acting like that,” Moses said.
With Farrell’s death the murder toll for the year has increased to 164.
