A Grenadian planning his wedding was one of two men murdered in separate incidents on Wednesday. According to police, Sammy Cadet, 37, of Clifton Hill, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain, was at home with his common-law wife, Jacqueline Job, and her four sons, who are all autistic, around 6 pm when five masked gunmen ran into their yard. Two of the gunmen forced their way into the house while three stood guard outside. Cadet was shot several times by the gunmen and died at the scene.
Police said the shooting was linked to an argument between Cadet and a relative of a deceased gangleader in Grenada earlier this year. Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, Job said Cadet returned to the island hours before he was killed having been gone for just over a month.
She said the two had already discussed marriage and Cadet had bought their wedding rings and was planning to repair her home, which was firebombed sometime ago. “He liked to clean, always cleaning and washing. All I had to do was cook. We were together since 2011 but like I am not to have anyone in my life because something always happening,” a distraught Job said.
The second killing took place about eight hours earlier in Belmont. The victim, Diamond Smith, 22, died while undergoing emergency surgery at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital. Police said around 10.15 am Smith was riding his bicycle along Belmont Circular Road when he was shot. He was taken to the hospital and died an hour later.
His mother, Mindy Roach, said Smith, of McKai Lands, Belmont, was a painter who began to associate with the wrong crowd after she and his father broke up. The murders of the two took the toll to 378. The corresponding toll for last year was 366.