KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Imani Black­ett’s am­bi­tion of be­com­ing a cat­tle farmer and pur­chas­ing his own car died with him yes­ter­day as he was gunned down while work­ing at his cousin’s par­lour.

Black­ett, 22, of Thorn­hill Dri­ve, Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do was said to be lov­ing and kind-heart­ed to­wards his fam­i­ly and nev­er got in­volved in al­ter­ca­tions.

It was why rel­a­tives were con­fused as to why he met such a vi­o­lent demise. Rain was pour­ing around 12.30 pm when a sil­ver pick-up truck stopped in front of the par­lour at the cor­ner of For­res Av­enue and St An­drews Av­enue, Co­coyea.

Eye­wit­ness­es said that a gun­man jumped out the van and opened fire on Black­ett. The young­ster was on­ly able to reach just out­side the door be­fore he fell in­to a clump of grass and died.

San Fer­nan­do CID, Mon Re­pos Po­lice and the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion III, in­clud­ing In­sp Ga­jad­har, In­sp Cor­rie, In­sp Fi­garo, Sgt Ram­lo­gan and Cpl Bac­chus re­spond­ed.

Search­es were made through­out the com­mu­ni­ty for the sus­pect and the pick­up. Up to late yes­ter­day, nei­ther was found.

Po­lice said Black­ett was not known to be in­volved in crime.

As friends, fam­i­ly and rel­a­tives gath­ered near the crime scene, tears flowed open­ly while some oth­ers stood in dis­be­lief.

Black­ett’s fa­ther, Fran­cis Black­ett, said that he was at home when he heard the gun­shots. When he looked out, he saw a pick-up dri­ving off. It was on­ly when a neigh­bour came to him that he found out that his son was killed.

“He didn’t use to in­ter­fere with any­body. He nev­er used to look for trou­ble. I know some peo­ple don’t like to see oth­er peo­ple progress and they would fight you down but I don’t know if that was the rea­son,” Black­ett said.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, po­lice are al­so in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing of three men in Point Fortin on Sun­day night. Re­ports are that Glen­roy Lon­don, Ri­car­do Mo­hammed and an­oth­er man who was iden­ti­fied on­ly as Tur­bo, were gam­bling at a house in War­den Road.

Around 11 pm, gun­men opened fire on the house, wound­ing all three men. The men were tak­en to the Area Hos­pi­tal, Point Fortin and trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they were ward­ed in se­ri­ous con­di­tions.