The mother of the country's latest murder victim said her son died in her arms after being shot on Sunday night at his roadside burger stall near the exit of the Grand Bazaar mall.
Bissoondai Gulbance, speaking to reporters outside the Forensic Science Centre, St James, where an autopsy was done on her son's body, said he did not have any enemies.
Police said Khemraj Seerattan, also known as Jason, 22, was at his stall around 11.20 pm, when a man alighted from a red Nissan Tiida and shot the vendor repeatedly.
Seerattan ran a short distance to his home where he collapsed. The gunman escaped in a waiting car which sped off south along the Uriah Butler Highway.
His death brings the murder toll to 11 for the year.
Gulbance said he started the business three months ago and other relatives believed that the gunman's target were some of Seerattan's friends who were usually at the burger stall site.
She recalled that moments before the shooting Seerattan asked her to go inside the house and prepare some tomatoes and other vegetables. The cart is located in front of the house.
"I heard something that sounded like fireworks. Then I saw him at the side of the yard lying down. He had blood on his clothes like he got shot," she said.
Gulbance said she tried to talk to him "but he didn't answer.
"Where are they getting all the guns from? I think it have too much violence with young people and all these movies with crime. People getting ideas with that," she added.
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?Relatives of murder victim Levi Snaggs has denied media reports which described him as "a pest".
Snaggs, 35, owner of Tough Man Construction and shopkeeper, of Belle Vue, Long Circular Road, St James, was shot dead on Sunday by gunmen.
Relatives said yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, Snaggs was killed by someone he knew.
"He was not a pest as reported but we won't say he was a good boy. He was seeing someone about work and someone he knew decided to take it out on him.
"He got shot without knowing why," a female relative, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said
In another unsolved case, relatives of Daryl Bastien, who was killed over a phone charger on Friday, said they were willing to forgive his attacker.
"We are deeply saddened and we forgive who did it. He is in God's hands already and there is nothing we can do but bury our dead. God works and the devil also works," one relative said.