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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Contractor murdered after getting phone call

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Hours af­ter WASA con­trac­tor Howard Lal­loo re­ceived a phone call from some­one ask­ing him to meet at Cou­va, a passers­by found his body slumped in­side his SUV.Lal­loo, 44, of South­ern Main Road, La Ro­maine, was shot once in the head while in his black Toy­ota Pra­do Land Cruis­er which was parked on Mil­ton Road yes­ter­day.Se­nior Supt John­ny Abra­ham said po­lice re­ceived an anony­mous call around 2.30 pm say­ing a man was slumped be­hind the steer­ing wheel of ve­hi­cle on the road­side. When of­fi­cers re­spond­ed they found Lal­loo dead.In­ves­ti­ga­tors said they have no mo­tive for the killing as it did not ap­pear he had been robbed. They be­lieve Lal­loo knew his killer.

How­ev­er, his broth­er, Stephen, sus­pects his broth­er's death might be linked to one of sev­er­al pri­vate con­tracts he had.Ac­cord­ing to Stephen, Lal­loo did oth­er plumb­ing and con­struc­tion work through­out the coun­try and was owed by sev­er­al of his clients."My broth­er did not have any en­e­mies or death threats to my know­ing but I know he had a lot of con­tracts and he dealt with a lot of peo­ple. It could be some­thing to do with a job."All I can say is that with his con­tracts, there are a lot of peo­ple ow­ing him mon­ey from all over and it could be re­lat­ed to some pay­ments that was owed to him," Stephen added.

Up to yes­ter­day morn­ing, Lal­loo's col­leagues said he was over­see­ing WASA re­pair works at Tem­ple Street, La Ro­maine. While there, he re­ceived a phone call from some­one ask­ing him to meet them at Cou­va.Stephen de­scribed his broth­er as a good per­son who nev­er had prob­lems with any of his rel­a­tives."He was a good fel­lah. We nev­er had any prob­lems with him. We grew up to­geth­er as a fam­i­ly.The mur­der is the fourth record­ed in Cou­va re­cent­ly. His death pushed the toll for the year to 59.


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