Casan­dra Thomp­son�Forbes

A sec­ond mur­der for the year has been record­ed for To­ba­go.

Za­ki Lorde, from Lam­beau, was shot dead by gun­men in the vicin­i­ty of the Live Wire Pub in Lam­beau, around 11 pm, Fri­day.

Lorde, po­lice said, was in his 30s.

The mur­der toll for To­ba­go now stands at two.

Speak­ing to the Sun­day Guardian yes­ter­day, Lorde's fa­ther, Hu­bert Lorde, said he was un­aware of any griev­ances his son had with any­one. He said his son was well liked in the com­mu­ni­ty and act­ed as a provider for many. The fa­ther said he does not hold any re­sent­ment or an­i­mos­i­ty against the men who killed his son since they were not born as crim­i­nals. He said he was at peace and is pre­pared to for­give the men.

Mean­while, Lorde's moth­er, Clau­dia Phillips, said she re­mained in shock over the in­ci­dent.

She wants jus­tice to be served.

"Right now I'm hurt and there's no for­give­ness in me. It's too hard to think about that right now. I want the per­pe­tra­tors to be brought to jus­tice, who­ev­er did that to my son," Phillips said.

Lorde was a poul­try farmer and a san­i­ta­tion work­er em­ployed with the Di­vi­sion of In­fra­struc­ture and Pub­lic Util­i­ties in the THA. He was al­so the fa­ther of four chil­dren rang­ing from two to sev­en.

An au­top­sy is sched­uled for to­mor­row.