A Gas­par­il­lo fa­ther who was work­ing hard to build a home for his wife and chil­dren was one of two dri­vers killed in a head-on col­li­sion in Cou­va dur­ing the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The dri­vers were iden­ti­fied as Akeel Gar­cia, 30, of Good­man Road, Gas­par­il­lo and Joshua Paul Dipc­hand, of Wind­sor Park, Cal­i­for­nia.

Po­lice viewed CCTV footage which re­vealed that the dri­vers were speed­ing along the Rivulet Road when their cars col­lid­ed near the NESC com­pound around 1 am. They were both dri­ving B14 Nis­san Sen­tras.

Gar­cia’s com­mon-law wife, Nike­sha Moli­no, said her hus­band, a pipe fit­ter, was work­ing as a con­tract work­er at PCS Ni­tro­gen in the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate. He left home around af­ter 4 pm on Tues­day to take up his 7 pm to 7 am shift. When Moli­no last spoke up him around 8 pm, he told her he was go­ing to get some­thing to eat.

De­scrib­ing him as a very giv­ing per­son and a joy­ful per­son, she said, “He was the best any chil­dren could ask for. His kids (a six-year-old daugh­ter and sev­en-year-old son) were his world.”

She said when he fin­ished work he would usu­al­ly take their chil­dren to school. They lived with his moth­er and broth­er, but she said he was work­ing to­wards build­ing their own home.

Moli­no, a su­per­vi­sor at Car­ni­val City, said Gar­cia had al­ready be­gun con­struct­ing their house. She said just Fri­day they went to Har­ry’s Wa­ter Park to cel­e­brate their daugh­ter’s birth­day.

Dipc­hand lived with his par­ents and broth­er, but no one was at home when the T&T Guardian vis­it­ed yes­ter­day.

Cou­va po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.