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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Mother of Mayaro murder victim seeks answers

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35 days ago
20250619

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

The moth­er of Can­dace Cassie-Ann Lemessy says her fam­i­ly is hurt­ing and des­per­ate­ly seek­ing an­swers af­ter her daugh­ter was gunned down near their Ma­yaro home.

The 41-year-old moth­er of two was head­ing home when shots were fired at her ve­hi­cle, killing her on the spot. Her van then crashed in­to a build­ing, which was once a bar, along Church Road, a short dis­tance away from her home.

Res­i­dents called the po­lice, who, on ar­rival, saw her body slumped over the pas­sen­ger side, lean­ing on the door.

Of­fi­cers lat­er found six spent .38 cal­i­bre shells at the scene. Lemessy, who was a con­trac­tor, was shot mul­ti­ple times in the chest.

Po­lice have re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that she had been re­ceiv­ing death threats fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion a few months ago.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at her Ma­yaro home yes­ter­day, Lemessy’s 72-year-old moth­er, Meria Lemessy, said she was un­aware of the threats and had no idea why any­one would want her daugh­ter dead.

“Al­ways a hap­py child—nev­er one day you see Can­dace vex. Can­dace could make peo­ple laugh at a fu­ner­al. Any­time she reach, every­body laugh­ing. Hap­py, jol­ly,” the griev­ing moth­er said.

Re­call­ing that her daugh­ter’s body was still in the van when she ar­rived on the scene, she said she was on­ly al­lowed to see her when the body was placed on a stretch­er.

“I was slap­ping her face, ‘Can­dy, get up, Can­dy, get up, get up,’” sobbed the moth­er as she wiped away tears.

Lament­ing that a few weeks ago the fam­i­ly faced an­oth­er trau­mat­ic in­ci­dent in­volv­ing her two oth­er daugh­ters and one of her sons, the moth­er of ten in­sist­ed that the in­ci­dents were not linked, and she plead­ed with the pub­lic not to spec­u­late.

Her daugh­ters were charged with griev­ous bod­i­ly harm and or­dered to leave their home as a con­di­tion of their bail.

“I wish if they could take that off the air (so­cial me­dia). Why they do­ing that?” she lament­ed. An­oth­er rel­a­tive al­so de­nied claims that that in­ci­dent was linked to a land dis­pute.

The moth­er said Lemessy was the sixth of her chil­dren and the first one she would be bury­ing. “It’s re­al­ly hard,” she lament­ed but was con­fi­dent that those re­spon­si­ble will be brought to jus­tice.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.


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