Murdered mother of two Crystal Harricharan will be laid to rest tomorrow, but her relatives are hoping the perpetrators will be arrested soon.
Her older sister Waheeda Seenath said an autopsy performed at the Forensic Science Centre in Port-of-Spain yesterday, confirmed that she died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Seenath said her information yesterday was that no one was held for her sister’s murder.
She also accused the police of not yet contacting grieving relatives.
“No police ever come and talk to us. We only find out through the videos. None of them (police) come here. That’s the life we living,” Seenath claimed.
The family believes that if the police had acted on Harricharan’s reports after her home in Claxton Bay was firebombed twice and shot at in January, she could have been alive today.
Following those attacks, the mother feared for her life.
She had even left her home at Boodoo Trace Extension and was staying with her boyfriend as she feared for her safety.
On Tuesday morning, Harricharan had just left her boyfriend’s home to pick up her son and nephew to take them to school.
However, as she entered her car at Jarvis Street in Vistabella, a gunman walked up to the driver’s window and shot her multiple times. He escaped in a white B-15. She died at the scene.
Relatives said Harricharan, 38, desperately tried to get help and protection from the police.
They said she visited the St Margaret’s Police Station, Marabella Police Station and the Police Administration Building several times.
They also said Harricharan believed she was being followed and her life was in danger.
For their safety, her children, ages 10 and 15, stayed with relatives.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Seenath said the family was not coping well.
“If the police did their work she would be here today,” she lamented.
The funeral service will be held at relatives’ home at Boodoo Trace, Claxton Bay, on Saturday, followed by the cremation at Waterloo Cremation Site.