Jensen La Vende

Po­lice are work­ing on the the­o­ry that a 30-year-old Ch­agua­nas man was killed yes­ter­day morn­ing be­cause of a re­la­tion­ship he had with a mar­ried woman.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Lar­ry Mo­hammed, of Ko­la­hal Road, Char­lieville, was found in his black Toy­ota Al­tis along Ceme­tery Street, Char­lieville, around 1.30 am.

Po­lice said his car was found idling and Mo­hammed slumped in the dri­ver's seat with gun­shot wounds to the head and chest. Noth­ing of val­ue was miss­ing from the de­ceased, prompt­ing po­lice to be­lieve that rob­bery was not a mo­tive for his death.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives told the T&T Guardian that Mo­hammed, a fa­ther of two, was in a re­la­tion­ship with a mar­ried woman from south Trinidad and they are work­ing on the the­o­ry that the woman's hus­band may be re­spon­si­ble for his killing.

The of­fi­cers added that Mo­hammed was sup­pos­ed­ly in com­pa­ny with the woman mo­ments be­fore he died.

Speak­ing with the me­dia at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, Mo­hammed's fa­ther, John, said the el­dest of his four chil­dren was "a fam­i­ly man" who was a pro­fes­sion­al fab­ri­ca­tor.

"I don't live with him, I live Mara­cas, St Joseph, but I hear he was home and then some­one called him and he went out. I nev­er know him as a bad fel­la or in drugs or any­thing. He had his smoke, a lit­tle drink, nor­mal thing," he said.

Asked about what the po­lice were sug­gest­ing as a mo­tive, the se­nior Mo­hammed said he had heard about the ru­mours of his son's al­leged in­fi­deli­ty in the past and when his son was con­front­ed, he de­nied it.

He said he could not say for cer­tain if his son had an ex­tra-mar­i­tal af­fair, adding that such a lifestyle was not how his son was raised.

"I ain't get chance to re­al­ly let it soak in or process it so I re­al­ly don't know what to say about it," Mo­hammed said when asked about his views on his son's death.

The lat­est killing took the mur­der toll for the year to 296, as com­pared to 264 at the same pe­ri­od last year.

Dad and son shot

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing of a fa­ther and son in La Hor­quet­ta on Mon­day night.

Po­lice re­ports state that Ja­mal Hosten, 28, was out­side his home at Ald­wyn Roberts Cres­cent, Phase 3, La Hor­quet­ta, around 7.30 pm when a gun­man on a bi­cy­cle stopped and opened fire on him. Hosten ran through his home with the gun­man in pur­suit. The gun­man then fled the house.

Po­lice said Hosten was not shot but in­jured by bul­let frag­ments. He al­so lat­er found that his son, Azr­i­al Far­rell, 12, had been sim­i­lar­ly in­jured by bul­let frag­ments. Both were tak­en to hos­pi­tal and treat­ed for mi­nor in­juries and dis­charged. Po­lice did not give a mo­tive for the shoot­ing.