Af­ter mak­ing mis­takes in his past which led to his in­car­cer­a­tion in prison, rel­a­tives said fa­ther of two Quil­lon Hud­son changed his life. It is be­lieved a phone call from some­one he knew on Fri­day night lured him his death.

Hud­son, 29, was shot sev­er­al times a short dis­tance from his home La Ro­maine home. Af­ter hear­ing the first set of gun­shots short­ly af­ter 10 pm, his rel­a­tives ran out of his house and ac­tu­al­ly saw him be­ing shot. The shoot­er then sim­ply walked away.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have not yet as­cer­tained the mo­tive.

Hud­son lived with his moth­er Char­maine Hud­son and oth­er rel­a­tives at Pearl Street. They said ear­li­er that day some­one had shot at Hud­son but he did not tell any of them or file a re­port. A rel­a­tive, who wished to re­main anony­mous, said Hud­son was out­side in the ham­mock mo­ments be­fore he was killed when he got a phone call.

“He walked down the road and short­ly af­ter he was shot. When we heard the first set of gun­shots mom said they shoot­ing some­body. She start­ed telling every­body to get off the road and she ask, ‘Where is Quil­lon?’”

Re­al­is­ing that Hud­son was the vic­tim, the rel­a­tive said rel­a­tives and a neigh­bour im­me­di­ate­ly put him in­to a car and rushed him to the hos­pi­tal. He died while be­ing at­tend­ed to at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. She said Hud­son did not iden­ti­fy the killer be­fore he died.

Peo­ple who were near­by heard the killer telling Hud­son, ‘You com­ing around me boy,’ as he shot him. She said Hud­son was last in­car­cer­at­ed three years ago. When he came out he changed his life and start­ed go­ing to church but he kept his friends be­cause he felt they “check for him.” Hud­son, she said, ig­nored their warn­ings about the com­pa­ny he kept.

“The old peo­ple have a say­ing that if you play with dogs you will get bit­ten by flees. And that is what Quil­lon was do­ing.”

She said he last worked on a rig a few months ago but he kept him­self busy.

“He was a worka­holic. A cool per­son. He liked to make his jokes,” she said.

He had two sons, ages one month and six years old.

Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 de­tec­tives are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, Homi­cide de­tec­tives are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of Akim Mar­tin, 25, in Bangladesh, St Joseph.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Mar­tin’s bul­let-rid­dled body was dis­cov­ered near the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route.

Mar­tin is said to be known to po­lice and his death is be­lieved to be linked to the dis­cov­ery of a gun in the Bangladesh area by po­lice dur­ing an ex­er­cise on Fri­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing. - SASCHA WIL­SON