Sascha Wilson
Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
As gunshots rang out on Monday night, a Gasparillo woman huddled inside her home with her two children. Minutes later, she heard that her mentally challenged brother had been murdered in his room.
“Last night was frightening,” said Kizzy Andrews, the older sister of 42-year-old Everton Andrews, in an interview at her Caratal Road home yesterday.
He was shot dead on a mattress in a room, separate from the main family house, sometime after 10 pm.
Recalling the ordeal, Andrews said, “I was lie down sleeping and during the sleep, I hear two sound, ‘pax pax!’
“I told my children not to open our door. The dogs were barking. We were so frightened that we did not go outside.”
Eventually, she said, her brother-in-law told them her brother had been fatally shot.
Andrews, a psychiatric outpatient, had struggled with his condition and would become violent if he stopped taking his medication.
“When he go to clinic or Ward One, he come out so good. But as he stops, he just do all sorts of things. He a bit miserable and thing, but I don’t know why they thing (killed) him for,” she said.
She said last November, the ambulance took him to Ward One at the San Fernando General Hospital.
“He spent two weeks, but when he came out, he was no different.”
While the police continue inquiries to determine a motive and track down the perpetrators, Andrews said she would get her justice through God.
“I believe in the almighty for justice,” she said.
