An­na-Lisa Paul

Rel­a­tives of a man who has been wrong­ly iden­ti­fied as a mur­der vic­tim on so­cial me­dia, are ask­ing per­sons to de­sist from us­ing his im­age on­line.

A head shot of the man was used with in­for­ma­tion and oth­er im­ages of the coun­try’s last mur­der vic­tim, Ka­reem “Fong” Thomas, at the job site where Thomas was killed in Diego Mar­tin on Tues­day,

How­ev­er, rel­a­tives of the wrong­ly iden­ti­fied man yes­ter­day said while he had the same name as the mur­der vic­tim, he was alive and well. As such, they asked the per­sons who were shar­ing his im­age along with the de­tails of Thomas' killing to stop do­ing so.

Up to yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors were yet to es­tab­lish a mo­tive for Thomas’ mur­der.

The 25-year-old air-con­di­tion tech­ni­cian, of Des­per­lie Cres­cent, was shot dead around 12.30 pm at his job site near Vic­to­ria Vil­las, Four Roads, Diego Mar­tin.

Of­fi­cers on pa­trol were alert­ed af­ter res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing loud ex­plo­sions and ar­rived at the Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Ad­min­is­tra­tive Com­plex at Ken­neth Val­ley Cir­cu­lar, West Park Sa­van­nah, Four Roads, where they found Thomas ly­ing on his right side at the con­struc­tion site with gun­shot wounds about the up­per body.

Re­ports claimed Thomas had been speak­ing to a co-work­er when a gun­man opened fire on the two. As Thomas ran on­to the job site, the 33-year-old co-work­er hid in some near­by bush­es. He emerged a short while lat­er and found Thomas ly­ing at the site and alert­ed safe­ty of­fi­cers.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors who vis­it­ed the scene re­trieved 13 shell cas­ings.

An au­top­sy on Thomas is sched­uled for to­day.

Up to yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors were yet to es­tab­lish a mo­tive for the mur­der and no one had been held in con­nec­tion with the killing.