He lived by the sword and died by it, this was how Joy Joseph summed up the life of her son, Teon Boucaud, who was killed by police yesterday morning at his St Ann’s home.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, Joseph said her last-born child was a stubborn young man whom she tried to turn away from a life of crime.
Police said Boucaud was killed around 4.40 am when officers of the Inter-Agency Task Force and Port-of-Spain CID went to the man’s home at Ariapita Road, St Ann’s, with a search warrant of arms and ammunition. Police said as they arrived, Boucaud opened fire on them and they retaliated, fatally injuring him.
Boucaud was a suspect in the murder of Motape Hutchinson, 30, of Ariapita Road, St Ann’s, on Monday. Police said his bullet-riddled body was found around 2.30 am after residents heard loud explosions. Hutchinson was the son of a retired police officer.
“That’s the road he choose. He never used to listen. I am not going to come here and say my son was a good boy. He was harden. No matter how I talk to him he don’t want to listen. You know the saying you does make the child but not the mind,” Joseph said.
The precepted officer with Amalgamated Security said she tried to stay away from her son’s criminal life because she feared he might use her service weapon in his criminal endeavours.
She said her son died at the age of 23, just like his father. What was the most heart wrenching thing arising out of her son’s death was the fact that his grandmother, Margaret Boucaud, raised him like her own and was now forced to bury “her true love”.
Joseph added: “Right now granny heart breaking. That is the part that hurting me. He was the love of she life. She used to drag that boy to church every day and look how he come out. He grow up in the church you know.”
In an unrelated incident a 57-year-old man was found yesterday stabbed to death and his body thrown in a drain in Cunupia. According to police reports, around 6.45 am Constables Ali and Mohammed responded to a report of a body found in a drain along Charles Trace, Esmeralda Road, Cunupia.
On arrival they found the body of Leon Anthony Byron, originally of Murray Road, Morvant, with stab wounds to the back of the head and face down in the drain. Police said Byron had recently moved into the area. No motive was given for his killing which took the murder toll to 270 for the year, 30 more than the corresponding period last year.