Relatives of the man killed at Upper Sixth Avenue, Malick, Barataria on Sunday morning are allegedly receiving threats from those responsible for his killing. Confirming at least two family members who are taxi drivers in the area were told to stop or they would be killed also, Anthony Marryshow’s relatives yesterday said, “It overbearing.”
Speaking with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, a grieving woman who requested her name not be used, cried uncontrollably as she said, “He was just going to work when they walk up and shoot him in the head and kill him for nothing.”
Marryshow, 43, also called “Rocky” and “Bullwinkle”, was shot around 7.40 am on May 18, minutes after he left his house in Barataria. He was reportedly approached by a gunman and shot once in the back of the head.
His relative described him as a kind, generous and loving person.
She said, “If you come home by us and we cook food, he could have his plate of food in his hands and he would give you and go and look for something else to eat—that was the kind of person he was.
“He didn’t deserve that.”
The family lost another male relative to similar circumstances in 2022, and attributed his death to the war between gangs in the area.
Claiming that the relative’s killing came after he was pressed by gang affiliates to choose a side and he declined despite having a colourful past, Marryshow’s relatives said, “We talking to the police and we asking them for assistance and they saying they cannot help. We don’t know what to do, where to go.” Begging for counselling for the teenagers and primary school-aged children who had lived through the two killings, the two women recalled Marryshow spending Mother’s Day with the family where he serenaded the mothers and promised to always love and be there for them.
One wiped tears as she said, “He don’t do nobody nothing. He was not the type to give anyone trouble or interfere with anyone.”
Indicating the women in the family had also been threatened by the criminal elements and were being forced to choose sides, one said, “We does always tell them God is we gang when they come as we independent and not on that.”
Begging for the authorities to step in before further killings occurred, she said they lived in the middle of gang territory and pressure was on them and other relatives to pledge allegiance to specific gangs—a move she said would end in sure death if done.
