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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Gunmen spray bullets, kill 3, hurt 3

Bloody Boardwalk

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2556 days ago
20180710

Two days af­ter he es­caped bul­lets from gun­men, Fa­bi­en “Su­per” Williams was killed on Sun­day while at the Board­walk in Ch­aguara­mas.

How­ev­er, the gun­men were so de­ter­mined to get their tar­get this time around that they sprayed bul­lets in the di­rec­tion where Williams, of Sea View Hill, Care­nage, was stand­ing, killing two oth­ers - Kedel “Time­less” Os­bourne, 21, al­so from Sea View Hill and An­drew Fran­cis, 39, of Mamoral No. 2.

Three oth­ers, in­clud­ing eight-year-old Ja­keem Moses, of Pel­i­can Ex­ten­sion, Mor­vant, were wound­ed. The oth­er in­jured peo­ple were iden­ti­fied as Ian Brown, 20, of Up­per Sea View, Care­nage and Keron Jones, 26, of Cleaver Heights, Ari­ma.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, short­ly af­ter 7 pm gun­men opened fire on beach­go­ers at the pop­u­lar venue, send­ing every­one scam­per­ing for safe­ty. Po­lice said Williams, Os­bourne and Fran­cis were killed in­stant­ly. In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers be­lieve the gun­men were af­ter Williams. Po­lice said they knew him well as he faced sev­er­al firearm of­fences in the past.

The T&T Guardian was al­so told that on Fri­day there was an at­tempt on Williams’ life when gun­men opened fire on him while he was lim­ing at a bar. Po­lice be­lieve Sun­day’s in­ci­dent was gang-re­lat­ed.

Williams’ rel­a­tives re­fused to talk to the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day.

How­ev­er, a rel­a­tive of Os­bourne, who wished not to be iden­ti­fied, ex­pressed out­rage over the in­ci­dent. He al­so blamed the po­lice for the spi­ralling crime rate.

“In­no­cent peo­ple have to go just so in this coun­try? The po­lice, es­pe­cial­ly the Care­nage Po­lice, don’t care a damn about us out here. This crime gone out of con­trol and no­body cares who get kill and if they in­no­cent­ly get kill…that’s the re­al­i­ty,” Os­bourne’s rel­a­tive said.

He de­scribed Os­bourne as “cool.”

“I re­al­ly don’t have noth­ing much to say about any­thing again…I don’t even want to see any­thing about this in the me­dia…We just fed up of this.”

Os­bourne’s rel­a­tive, who was vis­i­bly up­set, said rel­a­tives on­ly pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied Os­bourne’s body at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day and ques­tioned how his name could have been leaked to the me­dia be­fore.

Fran­cis’ sis­ter, Mar­garet Lo­gan, said her broth­er went with friends for a day of re­lax­ation at the beach. She added that she nev­er thought she would have ever re­ceived such “ter­ri­ble news.”

“This is hor­ri­ble…my broth­er was friend­ly, talk­a­tive and was just a co­me­di­an to all. I don’t even know what else to say be­cause it is like a night­mare to know that you can go any­where now and have to keep look­ing over your shoul­der,” Lo­gan said.

She added that her broth­er, who was a farmer, had three chil­dren, the last of them, Asia, be­ing born just three weeks ago.

Yes­ter­day, ba­by Asia was seen swad­dled in a white blan­ket in her moth­er’s arms at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent lat­er on Sun­day, Andy Nag­gas­sar, 35, was fa­tal­ly shot while at Jit­man Dri­ve, Five Rivers, Arou­ca. Na­gas­sar lived at Sev­enth Street, Range Road, Five Rivers. Po­lice said a mo­tive was yet to be de­ter­mined for his killing.

Al­so on Sun­day at about 1.30 am, An­drew Noel, 28, of Up­per Dun­don­ald Hill, St James, was killed when gun­men stopped the ve­hi­cle he was in and opened fire. Po­lice said Noel was not the in­tend­ed tar­get of the gun­men. Of­fi­cers said an­oth­er oc­cu­pant of the ve­hi­cle who was the in­tend­ed tar­get es­caped un­hurt.

Mean­while, po­lice are still prob­ing the shoot­ing of a man and woman in Mal­oney on Sat­ur­day. Po­lice said at about 10 pm both vic­tims were stand­ing along the road­way when a ve­hi­cle drove past them and its oc­cu­pants opened fire on them. The vic­tims, whose iden­ti­ties weren’t dis­closed, were tak­en to hos­pi­tal where they are ward­ed in se­ri­ous con­di­tions.

In Mar­aval at around the same time, Ezekiel Blaisell, 21, was shot and wound­ed while walk­ing along the Sad­dle Road near Beard Street. Po­lice said Blaisell, who was shot sev­er­al times in the leg, was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was treat­ed and ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

The week­end’s five killings brought the mur­der toll to 294.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to all in­ci­dents.


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