Anna-Lisa Paul
Even as the parents of Kyle Flemming wept on Monday as they waited to identify the body of their son who was killed on Friday night in Tunapuna – they admitted negative influences led to his untimely death.
Flemming, 21, of Bamboo and Romeo Drive, Tunapuna, was gunned down on August 18.
His bullet-riddled corpse was found around 7 pm, lying on the concrete steps leading past his house.
Speaking with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre, St James – his father said, “He was growing up good and well...he end up on the wrong side of people...friends and whoever he got carried away with.”
The second of five boys and part of a ten-sibling brood, Flemming was described by his mother Ann Marie Koon-Koon, as “normal.”
Looking off in the distance with tear-filled eyes, she continued, “He was loving, miserable, annoying. He was helpful.”
Koon-Koon said the former footballer was bright even as she lamented the crime situation which she described as sad.
To those facing similar loss, she urged, “Just keep praying and keep the faith in God because the devil just busy snatching we children from we every single day, minute and second go by...and the only person you can rely on is God, nobody else.”
She said there was no one else grieving families could draw strength from.
To others having to perform the difficult task of identifying their relatives remains on a daily basis, she advised, “I really hope somewhere along the line, these children and them...oh God, people have mercy on them and stop giving them these guns, it not nice.”
Regarding the crime situation, she added, “Guns don’t kill people, is people who does kill people, cause if you put down the gun, it can’t do nothing unless it in somebody hand.”
Adamant that she, “doesn’t even want a toy gun in my house and had never even buy one for them,” Koon-Koon said several attempts had been made previously on Flemming’s life, but Friday’s incident was the end. “I hope it stop there,” she begged.
