Sascha Wil­son

“Why they do him that for? Tell me why they do him that?” 63-year-old Rad­hir Seep­er­sad cried, strug­gling to come to terms with the mur­der of her nephew Deryck Har­ri­nath.

Har­ri­nath, 56, a Unit­ed States cit­i­zen, was sup­posed to pick up Seep­er­sad for church on Sun­day but nev­er showed up. Rel­a­tives be­lieve he was am­bushed and mur­dered as he left his home at Kr­ish­na Gar­den, Dow Vil­lage, South Oropouche, that morn­ing. 

When calls to his cell phone went unan­swered, rel­a­tives went to his home on Mon­day and found his life­less body slumped against a wall in his garage with gun­shot wounds to the chest. 

Rel­a­tives are baf­fled about Har­ri­nath’s mur­der, as noth­ing was tak­en from his home and his Mer­cedes Benz was still parked out­side. 

“No rob­bery. They went and kill him. I don’t know who kill him, they went and kill my child,” said Seep­er­sad.  

She said Har­ri­nath called her around 7.50 am on Sun­day to let her know he was on the way to pick her up.

His cousin Sueann Soong spec­u­lat­ed that his killers be­gan shoot­ing at him as he opened the front gate be­cause she saw blood in the yard. She be­lieves he ran in­to the garage and be­gan pelt­ing items at them be­cause there were shards of glass on the ground. 

“We know crime re­al high in Trinidad; it hor­ri­ble but you nev­er think that it will ac­tu­al­ly hap­pen to you and your fam­i­ly. I think these peo­ple are an­i­mals be­cause I don’t think if you watch an­i­mals, not even the an­i­mals does be so hor­ri­ble. I don’t like what hap­pened to him be­cause I know he did not de­serve it,” Soong said. 

Har­ri­nath mi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States when he was 17 years old and worked in the IT field. His es­tranged wife, daugh­ter, moth­er, and sis­ter all live abroad.

Seep­er­sad said her nephew loved T&T and re­turned to this coun­try about six years ago, opened a busi­ness, and built his house. 

De­scrib­ing him as her son, she said, “He did not care about crime; he loved Trinidad. He say if he have to get he death, he will dead Trinidad.” 

Seep­er­sad, who re­vealed that she had heart surgery three months ago and is a can­cer sur­vivor, said she was lean­ing on God for courage and jus­tice.

“I put every­thing in the hands of my God be­cause I serv­ing a liv­ing God, and let me tell you, I will see my jus­tice,” she said.

Of­fi­cers from Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.