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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Man gunned down at HDC apartment

Moth­er wants killers ex­posed

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The griev­ing moth­er of one of the coun­try's lat­est mur­der vic­tims yes­ter­day plead­ed with any­one who may have wit­nessed the in­ci­dent to come for­ward and iden­ti­fy her son's killers.Pa­tri­cia An­drews made the ap­peal yes­ter­day as she griev­ed over the loss of her son Kei­th Flem­ming.Flem­ming, 22, of Ethel Street, La Ro­maine, was gunned down out­side a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) apart­ment build­ing, Ste Madeleine, on Sun­day night."I am beg­ging for peo­ple to come for­ward and say what they see," An­drews said be­tween tears yes­ter­day dur­ing an in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian."My son did not de­serve to die like that. It is not like he was a pest. You know it have some pests in so­ci­ety, he was not like that. He was a lov­able per­son, a friend­ly per­son."

Po­lice said Flem­ming was stand­ing out­side Build­ing 5, Alexan­dra Lane, Corinth Hills, when three men ap­proached him around 9.50 pm. Two of the men start­ed shoot­ing at him, hit­ting him sev­er­al times. The men then es­caped.Peo­ple liv­ing near­by con­tact­ed South­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice and po­lice, led by Se­nior Supt Ce­cil San­tana, vis­it­ed the scene.An au­top­sy at the Foren­sic Sci­ences Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day list­ed Flem­ming's cause of death as a sin­gle gun­shot wound to the ab­domen.Yes­ter­day, An­drews said the po­lice told her no one was vol­un­teer­ing in­for­ma­tion about her son's shoot­ing.She said she want­ed jus­tice for her son be­cause he was a good boy and was work­ing to­wards build­ing his own home in Oropouche.

An­drews said she be­lieved her son's mur­der was a case of mis­tak­en iden­ti­ty be­cause she was told that the gun­men went in search of a man wear­ing a white T-shirt and her son was wear­ing one, as was an­oth­er man he was talk­ing to at the time."It was wrong place at the wrong time be­cause I hear (one of) my son say­ing that the fel­la he went by had on a white jer­sey. They were wear­ing white jer­seys. He was in the wrong place," she said.An­drews said the last time she saw her son alive was Sun­day when they at­tend­ed church to­geth­er. She said he was look­ing for­ward to his bap­tism, which was planned for next Sun­day."I was nev­er ex­pect­ing any­thing like that. He was sup­posed to be bap­tised next Sun­day. He was leav­ing home and go­ing to church and even reach­ing be­fore me. That had me feel­ing good," she said.

In 2010, the moth­er of nine lost an­oth­er son, Sher­win An­dres, to vi­o­lence. He was chopped to death when ban­dits stormed his La Ro­maine home pre­tend­ing to be po­lice. She said since then she had been await­ing jus­tice and hopes that with the mur­der of her youngest son she could re­ceive some clo­sure this time around."It hard, re­al­ly hard. I think they (po­lice) laps­ing. They should do some­thing," Adams said of hav­ing lost two sons.She added that Flem­ming nev­er want­ed any chil­dren as he suf­fered from sick­le cell ane­mia.Cpl Gopaul of the Ste Madeleine po­lice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.


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