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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Dad of Cunupia murder victim: He was fixing car for the wrong people

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Anna-Lisa Paul
364 days ago
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Earl Peters Sr, right, the father of Earl Peters Jr, who was killed outside Pizza Boys Restaurant on the Southern Main Road, Cunupia, on Sunday, speaks with relatives at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday.

Earl Peters Sr, right, the father of Earl Peters Jr, who was killed outside Pizza Boys Restaurant on the Southern Main Road, Cunupia, on Sunday, speaks with relatives at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday.

VASHTI SINGH

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

A sto­ic Earl Pe­ters Sr yes­ter­day blamed his son’s mur­der in Cunu­pia on Sun­day on his de­ci­sion to be in the “wrong com­pa­ny.”

“He was fix­ing a car for the wrong peo­ple and had gone to drop it back,” he added.

Earl Pe­ters Jr, 35, a me­chan­ic of Sa­van­nah Road, Diego Mar­tin, was one of three men gunned down in the park­ing lot of Piz­za Boys, Cunu­pia, around mid­day.

The oth­er vic­tims in­clud­ed Coast Guard of­fi­cer Dave Lyons, 24; and Jah-Mar­ley God­dard, 22—both of Sea Trace, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin.

Weep­ing as he left the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, af­ter iden­ti­fy­ing his son’s body, Pe­ters Sr said, “He was a re­al lov­ing child. I don’t know how he got caught up in this.”

He said the fa­ther of a six-year-old daugh­ter had got­ten in­volved with the “wrong com­pa­ny. He fix­ing car for them and that’s it, he went to drop it for the man,” Pe­ter Sr said, re­fer­ring to God­dard.

The fa­ther re­vealed, “He drop the car and like he car­ry the man to buy some­thing to eat, and that was it.”

Pe­ters Jr op­er­at­ed his garage out of his fa­ther’s house.

He said he had spo­ken to his son short­ly be­fore he left the house.

“He called me in the morn­ing and told me what he was go­ing and do, to drop off some car ... sim­ple.”

The fa­ther said Pe­ters Jr was hard-work­ing and com­mit­ted to his pro­fes­sion, but had been warned re­peat­ed­ly by peo­ple in the com­mu­ni­ty about his choice of clients. But Pe­ters Sr said it was a warn­ing his son ig­nored.

“Peo­ple telling you don’t work for that man, don’t fix his car, don’t do it, but like is a joke for you.”

Sun­day’s triple mur­der rocked the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion and sent fresh waves of fear among res­i­dents of the South­ern Main Road, Cunu­pia.

A to­tal of 24 spent 9mm shell cas­ings were found at the crime scene.


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