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.