A Malabar woman who have not fully gotten over the killing of her 33-year-old son, now has to find the strength to bury another one who was shot and killed early yesterday morning.
Maureen Caleb was calm as she recalled the events after learning about her son’s killing to the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday. The mother of five said her son was not involved in criminal activity and was not sure if his death was linked to the killing in June of his older brother.
According to police reports, around 2 am yesterday residents of Richard Trace, Tumpuna Road, Arima, said they heard gunshots coming from the home of 28-year-old Marvin Caleb. Police said a man in dark clothing was seen leaving the house. Caleb was later found dead in the house. On June 15, Caleb’s older brother Alexis Junior Caleb, was killed in a similar fashion.
Police suspected the older sibling killing was linked to a previous murder where his friend Neil Fortune was gunned down. Fortune, 34, was found dead inside an abandoned house at Richard Trace, Malabar, around 3 pm on June 9. He had a wound to the head and was semi-nude, police said.
Speaking at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday the grieving mother said a neighbour was heard shouting that someone was shooting Marvin after breaking down his door with a sledge hammer. She said the killers also killed two dogs belonging to her son.
“I have a son died two months ago too and I don’t know if that related to this... I don’t know what going on, I don’t know if the two linked. I don’t know.
“He (Marvin) was a quiet man. I don’t know him to be a criminal. He was helpful. He had one son. He had a serious face but liked to joke and loved to laugh. He wasn’t rowdy or anything” she said, adding that as a mother who lost two sons to gun violence, she was “not feeling good at all.”
“This is my second child. I genuinely don’t know. I have three of them left now,” Caleb said. Caleb's killing along with two other murders in south Trinidad takes the murder toll to 284 for the year, the corresponding figure for last year was 292.