A day after the birth of his son, a 33-year-old man who moved to Barataria after being chased from his Laventille home, was shot and killed.
Matthew Nigel Fraser was found dead around 10 am yesterday in a track off Sawmill Avenue, Barataria. Police said no one witnessed the shooting. They said they responded to a call at around 9 am and found the body about an hour later.
Neighbours said they knew Fraser only as Tall-Oh and that he lived “on the other side”. They said his son was born at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Saturday and he did not get a chance to see the infant before a bullet to the head ended his life.
At the scene, Fraser’s body was identified by the mother of his two other children, Atisha Worrel. She said his death was no surprise to her given his criminal past. Worrel said after Fraser left prison a year ago he was forced out of the Trou Macaque area where he had lived with her but he refused to stay away from a life of crime.
“He wasn’t a bad fella initially eh, but when the system gets hold of some of them it does be hard to let go and that’s what happen with him. He was a fella like this, if he come through here and he see all these children he will give all of them money,” she said.
“If he see all the children going to school and two not going he will go to the parents and ask them what they need. That is the type ah fella he was.”
Fraser was one of three men murdered between Saturday morning and yesterday and the second killed in the Barataria area. On Saturday night, 19-year-old Terrance “DJ Pop Skull” Ramdin, of Tunapuna, was murdered when he and two friends went to Seventh Avenue, Malick.
Police said Ramdin was standing on Seventh Avenue and his two friends were in a vehicle parked nearby when gunshots were heard and all three men were hit. Police said the shooting took place around 10 am and Ramdin later died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. His friends are warded in stable condition.
In the third killing, Arima resident Christopher Walker, 47, died yesterday morning hours after he was shot in the neck while at a friend’s home at Mc Nair Trace, Chin Chin Road, Cunupia. Police said Walker, originally of O’Meara Road, Arima, was shot at around 7 pm Saturday night when occupants of a purple car opened fire at the house. Police said they have no motive for the shooting which they described as a drive-by.
