A Mother’s Day lime turned into a wake on Sunday afternoon when a 35-year-old man was gunned down while at a party close to his home at Eastern Main Road, Tacarigua.
Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, Susan Austin said her son, Kevon Austin, was supposed to have spent the afternoon with her, his grandmother and other relatives, but their happy day turned into one of mourning after he was shot.
According to police reports, Austin got into an argument with some men while he was at the party. Police said one of the men pulled out a gun and fired at him. The gunman and his friends ran off as Austin collapsed and lay dying. The shooting took place around 5 am, police said. The number of people murdered is now 164, 30 more than for the same period last year.
“It was a bittersweet Mother’s Day for me, he would usually call me for Mother’s Day but then this come and happen. I didn’t know what to do. Everyone has to go some day. At first I couldn’t take it. We was supposed to go by my mother later in the day for a little lime,” Susan said, adding that her son was a construction worker who had turned his life around.
In an unrelated incident, the body of a man found at the side of the road on Saturday was identified as Adonis Khan, 48, of Edinburgh Village, Chaguanas. Khan was positively identified by his son Afraz “DJ Imran” Ali who said his father was a street dweller having been addicted to drugs. An autopsy revealed Khan died of a heart attack.