Ot­to Car­ring­ton

A one-year-old ba­by girl was al­most the vic­tim of a fa­tal shoot­ing in cen­tral Trinidad which claimed the life of her fa­ther on Mon­day night.

The in­ci­dent is one of many in the En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas com­mu­ni­ty in the last few weeks.

This in­ci­dent, how­ev­er, left 29-year-old Ja­maican na­tion­al Dwayne Robin­son dead.

His wife, Al­li­son Vial­va-Robin­son, was al­so shot in the right but­tock dur­ing the gun at­tack but sur­vived to tell the sto­ry.

The two had been mar­ried for five years and lived at Good­will Street, En­ter­prise.

Yes­ter­day, Vial­va-Robin­son said her hus­band had just got home from work af­ter 8 pm. He was re­lax­ing on the street. She said a car drove by on more than one oc­ca­sion be­fore the at­tack.

Vial­va-Robin­son, who spoke with Guardian Me­dia at her home, was in tears and gri­mac­ing in pain from her gun­shot wound.

She said, “I was fac­ing the road with the ba­by on my lap, then the car ap­proached and three gun­men start­ed to fire shots. I had to jump up and turn around to run and that is how I got shot and my hus­band got mul­ti­ple shots and died. By the time we took him to the hos­pi­tal he had no vi­tals at all, they tried to do all that they could have done but he was al­ready dead.”

Robin­son came to T&T from Ja­maica in 2013 and was a skilled labour­er. He moved in­to the En­ter­prise area on­ly five years ago.

Sev­er­al peo­ple said yes­ter­day he was not in­volved in any crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and he was de­scribed as the life of the par­ty.

He re­turned to Ja­maica in 2017 and came back to Trinidad in 2018 and had not re­turned to his home coun­try since then.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, oc­cu­pants of a white Nis­san AD wag­on opened fire on the cou­ple and their ba­by.

“I don’t know what to ..., we can­not say what is the mo­tive right now, we can­not say be­cause he was nev­er in any vi­o­lence or war with any­body and I can vouch for that. You can ask the en­tire neigh­bour­hood about my hus­band, they could tell you the kind of per­son my hus­band was,” she said.

She said her en­tire fam­i­ly has been left trau­ma­tised by this in­ci­dent and that her hus­band did not de­serve this.

“He was a good per­son and I can­not have com­plaints about him.”

Fam­i­ly mem­bers were up to late yes­ter­day try­ing to as­cer­tain the mo­tive be­hind Robin­son’s killing.

Po­lice are con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to this in­ci­dent.