The fam­i­ly of a La Ro­main painter who was mur­dered fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion on Sun­day night is call­ing for jus­tice.

Zaid Mo­hammed, 31, of Pond Street, La Ro­main, was beat­en and stabbed, his fam­i­ly said.

Ear­li­er that night, he had an al­ter­ca­tion with his girl­friend at a bar over two men who were “in­ter­fer­ing” with her. Less than 20 min­utes lat­er, he was dead.

Po­lice said around 10.30 pm res­i­dents heard screech­ing tyres and saw a sil­ver Almera stop op­po­site Roset­ta Street along Dum­fries Road.

Mo­hammed was seen scuf­fling with three oc­cu­pants, in­clud­ing a woman, in­side the car. Mo­hammed man­aged to ex­it the car, but it then rolled over him and crashed in­to a drain.

Mo­hammed got up and limped a short dis­tance away be­fore he col­lapsed and died. His at­tack­ers left in the car.

Mo­hammed’s old­er broth­er Sharaz re­called that he (Mo­hammed) was lim­ing at a bar with his girl­friend when they got in­to an al­ter­ca­tion over two men who were “in­ter­fer­ing” with her.

He said Mo­hammed’s girl­friend left him there and went home. 

“He was walk­ing back home, but I as­sume they pulled him in the car.  It was not long af­ter,” Sharaz said.

Com­plain­ing that crime in T&T was over­bear­ing, he said, “My broth­er did not de­serve to die like this. Even if there was an al­ter­ca­tion, it should not have end­ed up like this.  They could have left him to live his life.”

He said his broth­er was not vi­o­lent and wouldn’t have pro­voked a fight.

Sharaz said his broth­er’s gold chain and mon­ey were miss­ing.

Mo­hammed’s fa­ther, who re­turned to the crime scene yes­ter­day, cried out for jus­tice.

“No­body could bring back my son for me,” he said.

He said he picked up Mo­hammed af­ter work on Sun­day, and they went lim­ing. When he left him at the bar, every­thing was nor­mal.

“I went to Pe­nal and came back to this... The state of crime is very, very bad. The po­lice are not do­ing enough,” he lament­ed.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.