Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

"They killed my grand­son in the bush­es. It not fair. What is this world com­ing to?" Me­le­na Rauseo cried as she told rel­a­tives in the Unit­ed States about the mur­der of her grand­son, Kadeem Mark.

Stand­ing in the door­way of her liv­ing room, Rauseo said she could not bear to see Mark, 24, ly­ing dead with a sin­gle gun­shot to his head.

Po­lice said Mark, of Reid Road, Point Fortin, left home around 6 pm Mon­day to feed his two black pit bulls. The an­i­mals were tied in a shed in Mark's gar­den at Spring Street, off War­den Road.

It is be­lieved that while stand­ing near the shed a lone gun­man went up to Mark and shot him in the head as he at­tempt­ed to run. Around 8:45 am yes­ter­day, a res­i­dent of Spring Street saw Mark's body and called the po­lice.

He was still wear­ing his fa­ther's gold chain around his neck, caus­ing po­lice to rule out rob­bery as a mo­tive.

Of­fi­cers cor­doned off the area and searched for spent shells.

Rauseo said she did not know why any­one want­ed her grand­son dead.

"Kadeem is such a nice child. I don't know what go­ing on in Point Fortin now you know. This is so un­fair," Rauseo said, adding that in the days be­fore his death he told his fam­i­ly some­one want­ed him dead.

"I don't know who or why but I know he was afraid to go in the gar­den alone," she added.

Rauseo said on Mon­day, Mark told rel­a­tives he could not get any­body to go with him to the gar­den so he was tak­ing a chance to go alone.

"They shoot him and they kill him. I couldn't stay to look at the body. I could not take it," Rauseo added.

She said Mark was an on­ly child and his fa­ther, Ri­car­do, had been help­ing him to plant ochro, pep­pers, pump­kin and ba­nanas on the land. Ri­car­do was in­con­solable yes­ter­day and had to be tak­en to the Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal af­ter his blood pres­sure went up.

Po­lice said Mark knew the man who shot him. With­in re­cent times, out­siders have been oc­cu­py­ing squat­ting lands in the area. A source in the area said: "Strangers come here and they put up hous­es and squat. All kinds of things go­ing on here. Peo­ple sell­ing land that is not theirs to sell."

A num­ber of ply­board shacks were seen in the hill­sides at War­den Road which is a link to the South­ern Main Road, Cap-de-Ville.

Mark's body was sent to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, for an au­top­sy to­day. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion can con­tact CrimeStop­pers at 800 TIPS. Homi­cide of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.