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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Gunman kills dad in front wife, son

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Five-year-old Vikash Chablal watched help­less­ly as a gun­man stood over his fa­ther, Vish­nu "Toy" Chablal, and fa­tal­ly shot him in the head on Sun­day.So in­no­cent was the in­fant, he be­lieved that when un­der­tak­ers and po­lice left with his fa­ther's body they were go­ing to bring him back to life."The po­lice car­ry­ing my dad­dy and they will make my dad­dy live again. They will bring him back," Vikash told his grand­moth­er, In­dra Jagdeo, short­ly af­ter the mur­der.Vikash spent yes­ter­day at his cousins' home while his moth­er Ria Jagdeo went to her hus­band's au­top­sy."The child and his moth­er saw every­thing. She (Ria) ran to my house say­ing: 'Mum­my, open the door, ban­dits shoot Toy and he is dead,'" the el­der Jagdeo told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day.

Chablal, 39, a wreck­er op­er­a­tor with 800-4TOW, was in front of his Caratal Road, Bonne Aven­ture, Gas­par­il­lo, home short­ly af­ter 6 pm, when a gun­man ran up the ad­ja­cent Light­bourne Road and shot him in the chest. Af­ter Chablal fell, the gun­man, who was wear­ing a hat and a hand­ker­chief over his face, ap­proached and shot him in the head. The killing oc­curred just four days af­ter ban­dits broke in­to Jagdeo's home, which is in front of Chablal's house.Giv­ing the de­tails of the or­deal, Jagdeo said: "My son-in-law went to work but he for­got his chart, which he us­es to write down what he did for the night, so he came back for it. He went down the hill and he spent about a five min­utes and he left the truck on."The child want­ed to see how the wreck­er lights up, so he, his wife and the child came up­stairs.

"While he was go­ing up the steps, a per­son ran out from the back of the toi­let and fired three shots at him. He fired two, but it missed Toy and he shot him again. When he fell, the gun­man came over him and fired the next shot on his head and so he died."Jagdeo said Chablal had three chil­dren with his pre­vi­ous wife but had planned to mar­ry Ria once his di­vorce was fi­nalised. She said it was a mys­tery why any­one would want to kill Chablal as he was a nice per­son.Up to yes­ter­day po­lice had not es­tab­lished a mo­tive for the killing.Lament­ing the high mur­der rate, Jagdeo said: "This coun­try re­al­ly gone bad. I nev­er know I would have seen that in my yard, in front of my house."


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