A 24-year-old father of one, who could not bring himself to write his Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Math exam on Thursday because of his mother who suffered a stroke one day before, was shot dead Thursday afternoon.
According to Kylon Alexander’s girlfriend, Natalia Dalrymple, Alexander, an employee of the North Central Regional Health Authority, was scheduled to do the examination Thursday morning but due to the sudden illness of his mother he did not.
She spoke with the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James yesterday, adding that Alexander was telephoned numerous times by a friend to go out and eventually left.
She later learnt from a Facebook post that he had been murdered after it was nearing his 10 pm shift and he was not responding. The father of one was described as a family man who spent his time either at work or at home. He lived at D’Abadie, Arima
Relatives of Shaquille Thomas, who was killed along with Alexander were too distraught to speak. Thomas, 25, lived at Dookie Trace, Tunapuna. In 2016, his younger brother, Josiah Ramsahai, was killed in a shootout with police. The then 15-year-old was reportedly shot after police came under fire while responding to a report that a man was seen with a gun in someone’s yard off Maingot Road, Tunapuna.
The men were found murdered in some bushes at Pioneer Drive, Carapo, Arima around 4.45 pm on Thursday.