To­ba­go Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in solv­ing the case re­gard­ing To­ba­go’s first mur­der vic­tim of 2019, 19-year-old Dwari­ka Moses of Les Coteaux.

On Jan­u­ary 16, Moses’ body was found, burnt be­yond recog­ni­tion, in the back seat of his car in Ma­son Hall, To­ba­go.

His ve­hi­cle was al­so torched.

There has been no ar­rest in con­nec­tion with the mur­der.

Giv­ing an up­date on the mat­ter, new­ly-ap­point­ed As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Ver­non Roberts told To­ba­go To­day, the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing.

“The po­lice cur­rent­ly have sev­er­al leads and they are do­ing the nec­es­sary in­ves­ti­ga­tions,” Roberts said.

ACP Roberts called on mem­bers of the pub­lic to come for­ward with any in­for­ma­tion they may have to as­sist the po­lice in solv­ing the crime. Mean­while, Moses’ fam­i­ly held a memo­r­i­al ser­vice for the mur­dered teen on Oc­to­ber 10.

Tears flowed freely as the group stood at Moses’ grave­side pray­ing for jus­tice and ask­ing God for help to ac­cept their loss.

Moth­er of the vic­tim, De­r­ic­ka Moses, told Guardian Me­dia the fam­i­ly had to be at Moses’ grave­side for his birth­day.

“To­day would have been his 20th birth­day and we are keep­ing a memo­r­i­al and birth­day cel­e­bra­tion,” she said.

She said she re­mains heart­bro­ken and dis­ap­point­ed as the po­lice are yet to ar­rest any­one for her son’s mur­der.

“We keep check­ing and check­ing and they haven’t found any­thing, so many oth­er things have hap­pened since then. Still, they can’t tell us any­thing. We are still try­ing to come to terms with what hap­pened,” she said.

On the night of the mur­der, fire of­fi­cers were called to Ma­son Hall Link Road where a ve­hi­cle was on fire. Af­ter the flames were ex­tin­guished, a body was found in the back seat of the ve­hi­cle.

Pathol­o­gist Dr Easlyn Mc­Don­ald-Bur­ris con­firmed that Moses died as a re­sult of gun­shot wounds to the head.