On viewing the body of his common-law wife at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday, a tearful Mahase Latchman collapsed in disbelief and had to be assisted by relatives.
Up to late yesterday, Latchman, 28, said he was still trying to come to terms with the fatal shooting of Dhanmatie Amanda Bachan, 26.
Latchman said he has not slept since the incident.
Just after 1 am on Sunday, Latchman was driving his silver grey 323 Mazda car east along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, near Courts Megastore, behind a silver Audi car when its driver suddenly applied the brake.
Latchman had to slam on his brake to avoid hitting the back of the Audi.
On swerving to the middle lane of the highway the Audi drove up alongside him (on the left lane) and its occupants opened fire.
In a bid to escape the gunfire, Latchman accelerated and drove to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex after he realised Bachan was shot.
Latchman was also grazed by a bullet on right arm.
"I don't really know what is happening to me," a distraught Latchman said in a telephone interview yesterday.
He said he could not bear the sight of Bachan's body and collapsed.
"We were driving back from Carenage talking about money for sou sou and money to send our six-year-old son to school. And just like that life changed for me," Latchman said.
Asked how his two children, his son and 14-month-old baby girl were coping, Latchman said "Well my daughter is too young to understand what is going on while my son is okay but knows his mother is not around."
Latchman said his son's teachers visited him and extended their condolences.
In giving on update on the police investigation, Latchman said he was again interviewed by investigating officers, however, the police are yet to make any breakthrough in the case.
Funeral arrangements are yet to be made.
Meanwhile, president of Arrive Alive Sharon Inglefield said they were "deeply disturbed by the tragic criminal incidents of this weekend."
She said our "once peaceful country is plagued by lawlessness and people who think they have a right to commit deeds of wrongdoing with impunity."
Inglefield said Arrive Alive will continue to support the T&T Police Service and the Ministry of Works and Transport in their initiatives of increased road blocks, the computerisation of the licensing office and the penalty point system and the installation of cameras on all the nation's highways and main roads.
"We support zero tolerance to any form of breaking our laws since no one is above the law. Of note, is the lack of literacy of too many of our drivers witnessed in our drivers in educational classes, which, no doubt adds to the frustration and social issues as well as the delinquent behaviour being witnessed nationwide," Inglefield said.