One man is dead and an­oth­er in­jured dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing near the bas­ket­ball court in Mar­aval just a stone’s throw away from Diego Mar­tin North/East MP Colm Im­bert’s of­fice yes­ter­day.

The de­ceased was iden­ti­fied as Shaquille “Pa­pa” Eu­gene of Nicholas Street.

The wound­ed man, po­lice said, was not shot but was in­jured when he was struck by bro­ken glass. He was tak­en to the near­by health cen­tre where he was treat­ed and dis­charged.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 11.53 am Eu­gene was parked along the Morne Co­co Road op­po­site to the bas­ket­ball court in a black Kia mo­tor­car when a heav­i­ly tint­ed sil­ver SUV drove past him. The ve­hi­cle stopped and a man alight­ed from the pas­sen­ger seat and ran up to the dri­ver’s side where Eu­gene was seat­ed and opened fire. Eu­gene at­tempt­ed to dri­ve away but in­stead re­versed his car from the main road next to the bas­ket­ball court where he died be­hind the steer­ing wheel.

Sev­er­al on­look­ers told Guardian Me­dia they did not see what hap­pened.

One man said: “Fam­i­ly...the war now start. Them fel­las fight­ing over the drug trade and turf and it will nev­er end and no one will nev­er see or hear any­thing be­cause we love our own lives and don’t want to be killed for say­ing any­thing. We don’t even trust the po­lice to tell them cer­tain things nei­ther all those anony­mous or­gan­i­sa­tions to call and re­port crimes. The best thing is to stay qui­et - turn a blind eye and deaf ear. That is the re­al­i­ty of it.”

How­ev­er, po­lice be­lieve Eu­gene’s mur­der was a reprisal shoot­ing for the mur­der of Vaughn ‘Sand­man’ Mieres, his wife, Ali­ka “Let­ty” De­here and two oth­ers, who were all mur­dered at Mieres’ Las Cuevas home on Ju­ly 25.

Mieres, 44, was known as a King­pin, a re­put­ed drug and gun smug­gler.

It was said that those killings were linked to an in­ci­dent in June where there was an at­tempt on the lives of two of Mieres’ chil­dren.

Po­lice said then that they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that Mieres found out who was the mas­ter­mind and hench­men in­volved in that at­tack and were sus­pect­ed to be plan­ning “dead­ly re­venge”.

On June 12, gun­men opened fire on a ve­hi­cle trans­port­ing two of Mieres’ chil­dren along Bel­mont Cir­cu­lar Road, near Prov­i­dence Girls’ Catholic School, a short dis­tance away from the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion.

Three stu­dents were treat­ed for in­ju­ries and men­tal trau­ma, af­ter the dri­ve-by shoot­ing.

The dri­ver of the van trans­port­ing the chil­dren, James Gor­don, of Mara­cas was al­so shot but man­aged to es­cape by run­ning away.

Two of the in­ju­red, aged six and 15, were iden­ti­fied as Mieres’ chil­dren.

Mieres was ac­cused of be­ing the one be­hind the Ju­ly 19 dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Mar­aval in which two men - Ian Sharpe and Keon Tim­o­thy - were killed.

Mor­vant Mur­der

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, at about 6.20 pm on Sat­ur­day po­lice found Tyrel Jones, 25, ly­ing on the ground with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds at Base­ment Road in Mor­vant. He was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Jones’ rel­a­tives, who were at Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre said they be­lieve that he went to the area to sell a phone for mon­ey.

They said that Jones was a “hus­tler” and did not have a fixed place of abode.

An aunt and one of his broth­ers ad­mit­ted that he was “passed delin­quent” but strong­ly be­lieved that there was some­thing spir­i­tu­al­ly wrong with him.

His aunt said his moth­er died five years ago from a heart at­tack and said that she strong­ly be­lieved that her death af­fect­ed him, “he was strug­gling with his high­er and low­er lev­el of con­scious­ness...it passed the delin­quent stage. He was strug­gling with good and evil in his head. His moth­er passed away five years ago and from that, he stopped lis­ten­ing to peo­ple. We of­fered to get psy­chi­atric help for him but he would say he good and that we mad. I be­lieve he was pos­sessed with some kind of evil and there was no com­ing back.”