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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Brothers shot dead in Laventille

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Two Laven­tille broth­ers were am­bushed as they slept at the La Pe­na Street home ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing in what rel­a­tives say was aimed at get­ting their home, which is prime van­tage point for two war­ring gangs in the area.

Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, rel­a­tives of the men, Dex­ter Williams, 43 and Lloyd John­son 31, said the men were both hard work­ers and did not ser­erve to die like that.

The rel­a­tives said Williams, known by all as "Ba­by" was a ma­son and de­spite los­ing his left arm a few years ago af­ter he was at­tacked with a cut­lass, he still man­aged not just to con­tin­ue his trade but be "one of the bad­dest ma­sons" in the com­mu­ni­ty and coun­try ac­cord­ing to them.

The first born of eight chil­dren was born in St Vin­cent, like his moth­er, and the fam­i­ly strug­gled to build their home rel­a­tives said, hav­ing to car­ry blocks, wa­ter and grav­el be­fore go­ing to school to en­sure that the work­men had the nec­es­sary ma­te­r­i­al to build the fam­i­ly's home. His broth­er, the fifth child was the fa­ther of one.

Rel­a­tives said John­son had a 10-year-old son and was an ex­pert welder. His Face­book page was lit­tered with pic­tures prais­ing the art of weld­ing. Rel­a­tives said both men lived in the house alone af­ter their moth­er died and stayed even af­ter a younger sib­ling was shot, al­so in an at­tempt to gain con­trol of the strate­gi­cal­ly placed house.

"My moth­er house lo­cat­ed in the mid­dle of a turf war. Where it is it be­tween two dif­fer­ent zones. It's a ma­jor block for any one of them. Ras­ta and Mus­lim" one rel­a­tive said adding that the house was not prop­er­ly fenced and which would have al­lowed the killers to en­ter and leave al­most un­de­tect­ed.

"They (killers) be­hind the house for years now. They even shot one of my lit­tle broth­ers be­fore about two three years ago for the same thing. Most any­one could say about my broth­ers would be that they smoked weed. Noth­ing else be­side that. Lloyd liked to dress and look nice and he liked his weld­ing and women. Dex­ter now like his weed and his bel­ly" rel­a­tives said.

A rel­a­tive added that the last fond mem­o­ry the fam­i­ly had at the death house was a Sun­day lun­cheon turned fam­i­ly lime be­fore the ma­tri­arch died.

Rel­a­tives said the killings will not guar­an­tee that those who are adamant about get­ting the house will suc­ceed. One rel­a­tives said she will use her pow­er grant­ed to her through the Or­isha faith to en­sure that any­one who seeks to take con­trol of the fam­i­ly home will meet a sim­i­lar fate to her broth­ers.

"I hope the fel­las who do this their par­ents could find mon­ey to see about them when I done with them that's all I have to say. Be­cause I don't un­der­stand what Laven­itlle com­ing to this thing reach­ing in chil­dren school and all. Just this I had to go in my son school, Our La­dy of Laven­tille Pri­ma­ry School, for the same Ras­ta and Mus­lim war. It reach stan­dard four and five" one rel­a­tive said.


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