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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Family suffers double tragedy

Woman dies from heart at­tack af­ter hear­ing of grand­son's mur­der

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A fam­i­ly has been plunged in­to mourn­ing af­ter a grand­moth­er suf­fered a mas­sive heart at­tack when told that her grand­son had been mur­dered on Sun­day night, a stone's throw away from the fam­i­ly's Chi­napoo Vil­lage, Mor­vant, home.The trag­ic sit­u­a­tion seems all too fa­mil­iar to this fam­i­ly as an­oth­er pair of fam­i­ly mem­bers passed away un­der sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances last year.At around 8 pm on East­er Sun­day, 17-year-old Ak­il James left his home to play foot­ball with friends at a com­mu­ni­ty bas­ket­ball court less than five min­utes away.James, a Form Five stu­dent of Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School, played foot­ball at the court reg­u­lar­ly and was con­sid­ered to be a "good boy" by neigh­bours.

He was shot and killed short­ly be­fore 10 pm while on the court.James's friends went to de­liv­er the news to the woman he called grand­moth­er, 66-year-old Mar­garey Hutchin­son, who was sleep­ing at her home at the time.Mar­garey and her son Michael Hutchin­son were awak­en by fran­tic calls and was im­me­di­ate­ly told the bad news.Mar­garey had tak­en care of James since days af­ter his birth.She was told that the child she loved had been shot and killed by an un­known gun­man.Mar­garey's son, Michael, said his moth­er, clutched her chest on hear­ing the news and com­plained of pains."She screamed out 'Oh God! My chest hurt­ing' so I car­ried her to lie down and called the am­bu­lance," Michael said.Michael said he was in shock at the news of James's death but was more wor­ried about his moth­er who looked ill and con­tin­ued to clutch her chest.When the am­bu­lance ar­rived at the fam­i­ly's home, an hour lat­er to take Mar­garey to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment, rel­a­tives feared the worst.

Mar­garey was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the hos­pi­tal."I don't know what to say. I don't know what is go­ing on. We are all shocked. Ak­il was mis­er­able but we didn't know him to be in any bad boy thing," Michael said.James was a mem­ber of the T&T Cadet Force."He was a nor­mal fel­la but he didn't like to lis­ten."Michael said James had dis­obeyed a re­quest from Mar­garey on Sun­day. She had told him to stay home and wash his clothes.In­stead, he went to play foot­ball with friends.The fam­i­ly's shock goes even deep­er as they ad­mit to feel­ing like they were re­liv­ing a night­mare.Last year, Mar­garey's grand­son Abra­ham was shot and killed.Abra­ham's moth­er died hours lat­er af­ter suf­fer­ing a stroke on hear­ing the news of her son's death."I can't ex­plain it," Michael said of the co­in­ci­dence. "It is a very scary thing."There were no ar­rests up to late yes­ter­day and po­lice con­tin­ued in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to James's killing.


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