While Angela Moses was sitting at home waiting for her son Everton to return to celebrate her 57th birthday on Tuesday, gunmen were pumping dozens of bullets into his body, killing him on the spot.
Speaking at her Riverside Drive, Marabella home yesterday, Moses said she was at a loss as to why her son was killed. Everton, 35, was the second of her 15 children and the father of a 13-year-old girl.
According to reports, he was shot several times while walking along Seaview Drive, Marabella, around 8.30 pm on Tuesday.
Police recovered over 30 spent shells from the scene and believe a couple shooters used high- powered weapons to kill Everton. Police said he was not known to them.
“He was a very friendly person who was always making jokes with everyone, he didn’t have any quarrels or disputes, we are all in shock over this,” Moses said yesterday.
“I don’t have a clue why they kill him. He was not a fella in any gang things or anything like that.”
However, she said the family was told that Everton had won money in a card game before leaving the game to go back to his home.
“I don’t know if they were going to rob him or what, we just don’t know,” she said.
But Moses said her son had promised to return home early to celebrate her birthday.
“He used to usually go out every night to lime with his friends, but we were having a little get-together for my birthday and he said he would come back early to lime with me.
“I was expecting him to come back and I was sitting down watching some TV when someone call and said he got shoot by the trainline.”
She said Everton worked various jobs, as he had worked as a labourer for WASA, but his dream was opening his own business.
“He wanted to open a little business to sell fruits for himself, to have his own fruit stall and work for himself.”
Officers from the Southern Division Homicide are continuing investigations.
