Police believe jealousy is to blame for the daylight killing of a Belmont man at Beetham Gardens, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
The victim, Kendall Alexander, 23, was linked to three romantic relationships with women in the area.
Police sources said Alexander, who frequented Beetham Gardens to visit relatives, moved in earlier this year after a dispute over property in Belmont.
Since moving into the area he was involved in three relationships with women in the area, something that angered the Beetham men, police said.
According to police reports, around 6.45 am, Alexander told a female friend he was going out on the road to purchase marijuana. A short while later gunshots were heard and residents found a bareback and bleeding Alexander slumped at the side of the road.
The 23-year-old labourer with the Port-of-Spain City Corporation was the country’s 352nd murder victim.
For the same period last year the murder toll was 335.
Speaking with the media at the murder scene along 18th Street, Beetham Gardens, yesterday, a short distance from Alexander’s home, his father, Kevin Greaves, said his son was undeserving of such a death.
Greaves said his son was known in the area as he (Greaves) grew up there and moved to Belmont. The weeping father said that his son was not a criminal and only had a marijuana case pending.
He said he was unsure how he was going to inform his son’s mother of his death as she was currently in hospital preparing to undergo surgery. Greaves said his son was at home in Belmont on Thursday night but decided to visit Beetham.