Al­though Kevon Richard­son was not a ma­jor play­er on po­lice’s radar, his con­nec­tion to the crim­i­nal un­der­world and “run­ning his mouth” may have cost him his life.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Richard­son, 37, even pro­vid­ed body­guard ser­vices for sev­er­al busi­ness­men with crim­i­nal ties.

There­fore, when he post­ed sev­er­al videos on Face­book al­leg­ing that some of them were mov­ing drugs through well-known ar­eas, it was sus­pect­ed that he would be si­lenced.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Richard­son, of Ayres Av­enue, Princes Town, was dis­cov­ered dead in a track, just 100 me­tres from his home around 6.30 am on day. He was shot in the head.

Princes Town po­lice re­port­ed that around 10.30 pm Mon­day, they re­ceived a call from res­i­dents who re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots in the com­mu­ni­ty. How­ev­er, when po­lice checked, they found no sus­pects and the com­mu­ni­ty was qui­et. Richard­son’s rel­a­tives de­clined to com­ment on his mur­der yes­ter­day, but friends re­mem­bered him as a “cool per­son.”

In one of sev­er­al live videos post­ed on Face­book, Richard­son ac­cused a Princes Town busi­ness­man of “mov­ing drugs in the I8.” He then says, “Al­lyuh turn from al­lyuh wicked ways.”

Po­lice said that same busi­ness­man op­er­ates a cash for gold busi­ness and dri­ve “fan­cy cars.” In the same video, he al­so iden­ti­fied an au­to parts deal­er, threat­en­ing to ex­pose his busi­ness of sell­ing stolen parts and steal­ing it back from his cus­tomers. Richard­son al­so iden­ti­fied by name the own­er of a San Fer­nan­do night­club, threat­en­ing to “tell peo­ple” that he was af­flict­ed with sev­er­al sex­u­al­ly trans­mit­ted dis­eases.

“If you do not com­ply, we is go­ing to lie and tar­nish your char­ac­ter.”

The video al­so called the names of sev­er­al oth­er busi­ness­men in an ap­par­ent at­tempt to ex­tort funds for a chil­dren’s event.

In an­oth­er video, he al­so threat­ened to ex­pose sol­diers who were sent to his house by a fe­male rel­a­tive re­cent­ly. In that video, he al­so threat­ened to ex­pose a busi­ness­man who was sell­ing al­co­hol with­out a liquor li­cense.

“Any sol­dier from the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force what want war and bat­tle, put down al­lyuh gun, put down al­lyuh badge and al­lyuh come and let me beat al­lyuh (ex­ple­tive) bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.”

By yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, there was a so­cial me­dia post cir­cu­lat­ing that al­leged that the man in the pho­to was “the cow­ard who killed Kevon Richard­son from be­hind this morn­ing so that he could ply his drug trade in Loth­i­ans, Princes Town.”

Two months ago, Richard­son was at his par­ents’ home in Princes Town when a fe­male rel­a­tive called the po­lice. She re­port­ed that he had been be­hav­ing in an er­rat­ic and vi­o­lent way. When of­fi­cers ar­rived and at­tempt­ed to sub­due Richard­son, he be­gan tus­sling with the of­fi­cers. An of­fi­cer shot Richard­son in the leg.

In Jan­u­ary, his broth­er Brent Richard­son was shot dead while lim­ing at a bar in Princes Town, Two broth­ers are be­fore the court, charged with his mur­der.