The man who shot and killed Akeem Bascillo and his girlfriend Jewel George on Wednesday night had been following them, waiting for the right time to strike.
So said Bascillo's stepfather, Ryan Nanlal, who told the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday Bascillo, 21 and George, 20, noticed a strange car following and tried to hide out at a bar along the Eastern Main Road to evade their stalkers.
When they thought it was safe, they left the bar and were walking along the Eastern Main Road, near the Tacarigua Pharmacy West, when a gunman approached the couple and shot them both in the head.
He then ran off. Police said the shooting took place around 9 pm. The couple fell on the pavement next to each other on the sidewalk. Photos of the dead bodies were circulated on social media minutes later, before police arrived on the scene and cordoned off the main road.
Bascillo's mother, Nanlal said, was about 100 feet away and heard the gunshots that took her child's life and that of his girlfriend as she awaited his arrival at her home.
Nanlal said the boy's father, Ricardo Daniel, had earlier advised the couple not to leave his Huggins Street, Tacarigua, home as it was too late.
The couple, he said, wanted to get something to eat before going to the home of Bascillo's mother who lived south of the Priority Bus Route.
Earlier that day Bascillo's life was threatened, Nanlal said.
He said someone telephoned Bascillo's cousin, who he limed with frequently, to relay the threat to the disc jockey. He said that since then Bascillo was moving cautiously.
"He was with the girl about two years now. We not sure but we believe it have something relating to the girl.
"Under all seriousness it would be through the girl. His father brace him when they were leaving and asked them where they were going at this hour because they were home good all the time.
"He (Bascillo) said they just wanted to go by the Chinese restaurant and then I think they were going by his mother house, while they gone to get food by the Chinese place, they get kill by the gunman," Nanlal said.
Bascillo's father, who was also at the Forensic Science Centre, said his son was an intelligent young man who loved sports and deejaying.
"He wasn't any violent person. He was never in drugs. He didn't even like to smoke cigarettes. Anywhere you see him he was a pleasant person and those who knew him they could tell you," Daniel said, before he was called away by staff at the centre.
Nanlal told the media Bascillo had won a competition recently with radio station Boom Champions 94.1 FM and was expected to begin working there as part of his prize.
Relatives of George, who lived at Macoya Road, Tunapuna, were too distraught to speak with the media when approached.