Fourteen years after being wounded in a shooting that claimed the life of his father, businessman Lyndon Collins was gunned down at a friend's home on Sunday.
Collins, 37, a father of two, ages 11 and nine, was liming at a house along the Penal Rock Road, Moruga.
He was seated in the garage with others when around 4.10 pm, a man wearing a black cap, white T-shirt and blue three-quarter jeans pants walked up to them and pulled out a gun. His friends ran away, but Collins was shot in the head. Police and paramedics responded, but Collins was already dead.
He lived alone in an apartment along the Quinam Road, Penal. The former MTS security officer owned mobile phone stores in Penal and Chaguanas. However, he closed the Penal branch recently. His sister-in-law, Sunita Manohar, said the family was shocked at his killing, as he was a caring and jolly person. She said he never told anyone about any threats against him or problems that he had.
Outside their Penal Rock Road home, Manohar said, "We got a phone call from someone saying that a gunman came and shot up the place. When his brothers went up there to check, they found him motionless and there was a lot of blood around.
"He went to a normal Sunday lime. Usually every Sunday he would join a friend and they would go up there to hang out and cook. I saw him that morning as it was a routine every Sunday for him to come and check my children. If he don't see them, he doesn't feel good so he comes to check them every Sunday morning. Yesterday, he didn't even come out his car because they had planned to lime up the road."
Police had no motive for the killing and relatives are worried that his murder will go unsolved just like his father's. In May 2003, Collins' father, Anthony Hospedales attempted to quell a dispute among neighbours who were playing a game of "whappie" when one of the players pulled out a gun and opened fire on the group.
Hospedales, 45, his son, Quincy, then 21, Collins, then 23, their cousin, Laron Hospedales and friend, Jason Clarke were all shot.
Hospedales died while the others recovered from their injuries. The 18-year-old suspect, a deportee, was never found.