Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A Trinidad-born Amer­i­can res­i­dent on her way to the air­port to board a flight home yes­ter­day morn­ing nev­er made it.

Kim­ber­ly Be­har­ry, 40, a bank em­ploy­ee of New Jer­sey, USA, and Bri­an Ge­of­froy, 60, of Williamsville, were killed af­ter the oc­cu­pant of an­oth­er ve­hi­cle shot them while they were trav­el­ling in a car near the Gas­par­il­lo Over­pass.

Ge­of­froy’s wife Jas­mine, 55, was in the back­seat, and was wound­ed.

They picked up Be­har­ry in a Hyundai City ve­hi­cle at her Be­deau Street, Gas­par­il­lo home af­ter 1 am to take her to the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Be­har­ry lived in New York and worked at M&T Bank in New Jer­sey. She was sit­ting in the front pas­sen­ger seat.

When they got to the Gas­par­il­lo over­pass, how­ev­er, sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions were heard, and a white Nis­san Ti­i­da drove up be­hind them. The car then pulled along­side their ve­hi­cle and a gun­man opened fire on Ge­of­froy and Be­har­ry.

Ge­of­froy crashed through the bar­ri­er at the Gas­par­il­lo en­trance to the Guaracara Re­fin­ery, while the as­sailants sped off, pro­ceed­ing north along the high­way.

Ge­of­froy’s wife suf­fered in­juries and was tak­en via am­bu­lance to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where she re­mains ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

In a brief tele­phone in­ter­view, Be­har­ry’s moth­er Kay Sankar de­nied a so­cial me­dia re­port that her daugh­ter was in­volved in a fam­i­ly feud or came to the coun­try to set­tle a court mat­ter.

She said, “It doesn’t have any truth to that and we don’t know what went on. We re­al­ly don’t know.”

Sankar said her daugh­ter had no prob­lems. She ex­plained that Ge­of­froy was a friend of the fam­i­ly and had vol­un­teered to drop her daugh­ter to the air­port.

“He did noth­ing wrong. She did noth­ing wrong. They did not de­serve this,” Sankar lament­ed.

She said they had no clue why any­one would want to mur­der them.

“Talk to the po­lice, they were there. There are cam­eras all over. I just passed and I saw about three cam­eras where this hap­pened,” she said.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Ge­of­froy’s res­i­dence, no one was at home.

Po­lice re­cov­ered 12 9mm spent shell cas­ings at the scene and were still try­ing to de­ter­mine a mo­tive last evening.

Snr Supt Bri­an Sood­een, head of the South­ern Di­vi­sion, was among the of­fi­cers who vis­it­ed the scene. Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion Three are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.