KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

When Kirk Guerero heard gun­shots echo­ing in his Moru­ga neigh­bour­hood, he did not sus­pect his fam­i­ly was in dan­ger.

But af­ter calls to his broth­er Pe­ter Guerero, who lives be­hind his house, went unan­swered, Kirk’s fears were re­alised.

To­geth­er with Moru­ga po­lice, Kirk lat­er found Pe­ter ly­ing un­der his bed, dead, in­side his gal­vanise shack near the La Lune Beach.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of gun­shots around 10.30 pm Tues­day and found Pe­ter, 44, dead at his home.

Speak­ing at his La Lune Road home yes­ter­day, Guerero said it was around 10.15 pm when he heard gun­shots.

His wife told him it sound­ed like the shots had come from the back of the house but he did not think so. His neigh­bour then called, telling him the shots came from the back of the house.

Not think­ing any­thing of it, he con­tin­ued re­lax­ing on his bed un­til he saw po­lice ve­hi­cles dri­ve down to the shore. The of­fi­cers got out and be­gan search­ing the area.

“Even be­fore they came, I called my broth­er be­cause he lives in the back there, to see if he would an­swer and know what was go­ing on and if some­thing hap­pened in the back there or some­thing not con­cern­ing him. It went straight to voice mail, it nev­er rang,” Guerero said.

He called Pe­ter’s phone three times but got the same re­sponse. With the area lead­ing to the beach in dark­ness, Guerero wait­ed for the po­lice to pass by his home and stopped the ve­hi­cles. He in­formed the of­fi­cers that they heard gun­shots at the back of his house. He told the of­fi­cers his broth­er lived there and asked them to ac­com­pa­ny him.

Guerero and the of­fi­cers used flash­lights to nav­i­gate the bushy area and as they came up­on the shack, they no­ticed bul­let holes in the gal­vanised sheets.

“I re­alised the shots were re­al­ly at my broth­er’s house or around it. I looked around and the door in the back was open. I moved the cur­tain, and when I looked, I saw him on the ground un­der the bed out­side and in blood.”

Guerero said it ap­peared his broth­er tried to hide un­der his bed when the gun­man be­gan fir­ing. He had no idea who want­ed his broth­er dead.

He said Pe­ter was a painter and had a house paint­ing to do in Mar­aval yes­ter­day. He said Pe­ter lived in St Joseph, To­ba­go and sev­er­al oth­er places be­fore com­ing to Moru­ga.

Guerero did not know Pe­ter to have en­e­mies in the com­mu­ni­ty. He al­so does not be­lieve it was a rob­bery as his broth­er did not have much mon­ey.

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