The au­top­sy that was sup­posed to have been done on the body of Venezue­lan na­tion­al Eve­lyn Ro­jas, 40, yes­ter­day could not have been done as rel­a­tives failed to claim her body.

Po­lice sources told the Guardian Me­dia that her body re­mained at the hos­pi­tal's mor­tu­ary be­cause none of her close rel­a­tives came for­ward.

Po­lice are hop­ing that her rel­a­tives show up at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre on Tues­day so that the au­top­sy can be per­formed and the re­sults in­clud­ed in the in­ves­tiga­tive file.

Po­lice said gen­er­al­ly when Venezue­lans are killed or die by any oth­er means rel­a­tives and close as­so­ciates fail to show up to iden­ti­fy the re­spec­tive bod­ies for fear that they them­selves may be ar­rest­ed by po­lice, es­pe­cial­ly in cas­es where they are in the coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

Ro­jas was shot dead on Sat­ur­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a night of par­ty­ing at an apart­ment she shared with a close male rel­a­tive in Cara­pichaima.

Po­lice are since search­ing for her male com­pan­ion and oth­er Venezue­lans who were at the par­ty to as­sist them in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Ro­jas, 40, a moth­er of three, moved in­to the apart­ment at Wa­ter­loo Road, Cara­pichaima, less than a month ago.

Land­lord Jef­frey Dyett dis­cov­ered her ly­ing in a pool of blood un­der a shed out­side the apart­ment short­ly af­ter 3 am.

He be­lieves that Ro­jas was shot at the back of the house and ran to the side where she died.

Dyett said Ro­jas, whom he de­scribed as a good woman, was un­em­ployed had been in T&T for about two years and spoke Eng­lish.