De­ter­mined to find out how her on­ly child,  28-year-old Dy­lan Ma­haraj, was killed, a South Oropouche moth­er yes­ter­day plead­ed for an­swers. Grief-strick­en and heart­bro­ken, Vashti Singh could not hold back her tears dur­ing an in­ter­view with re­porters at her home yes­ter­day. 

Ma­haraj, an AC tech­ni­cian, from Dow Vil­lage, South Oropouche, went to  Jan­gal for­est in Ves­signy Vil­lage, La Brea, with his friend Damien Dook­ie,  23, and an­oth­er friend to hunt around 10.30 pm on Fri­day.

His friend told po­lice that Ma­haraj was hunt­ing about 200 feet away from him when he heard a gun­shot. He called out to Ma­haraj but got no an­swer, and on check­ing, he saw him hold­ing his right side chest bleed­ing. 

Dook­ie said he called his boss and friends to as­sist in bring­ing him out of the for­est. 

The EHS am­bu­lance took Ma­haraj to the Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal where he was de­clared dead around 2.15 am.  

His cousin Bran­don Badress­ingh said ini­tial­ly they were told that Ma­haraj fell off a scaf­fold­ing which they had erect­ed in the for­est to hunt. He im­me­di­ate­ly went to the for­est and walked for about an hour be­fore he found his rel­a­tive on the ground bleed­ing.

He said Ma­haraj lost con­scious­ness­es. 

“We didn’t run, we was tot­ing him be­cause he was bleed­ing plen­ty and he was on­ly slip­ping out.” 

Singh said her son, who had a one-month-old ba­by and a two-year-old daugh­ter, had a pas­sion for hunt­ing. 

“I don’t know what it is but what I know some­body kill my child in the bush,” she claimed.

“Every­body out there, hap­py. No, no, some­thing more than that. Some­thing else more than that with my child. My child he loved the bush. Grow­ing up as a child he al­ways in the bush or he have hunt­ing dogs in the back here.” 

Re­fer­ring to Ma­haraj as her bless­ing, Singh said she had four oth­er sons who died from nat­ur­al caus­es as ba­bies.

“I work very hard to mind my child. I try to put up a foun­da­tion for them here, build a house for them, just for them to be hap­py. I bought every­thing for my child. I buy a car for him,” she sobbed.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion Re­gion 3 and South West­ern po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.