Sascha Wil­son

Six­ty-sev­en-year-old pen­sion­er Wor­lene Joseph fond­ly known in his home­town of Fyz­abad as Caribbean Fox was shot dead at his home along with an­oth­er man dur­ing the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The at­tack in which a 41-year-old woman was al­so wound­ed has left the Dubar­ry Street Ex­ten­sion, Dehli Road, com­mu­ni­ty in shock as they say Joseph was a fun and jol­ly per­son.

Po­lice are still try­ing to piece to­geth­er what tran­spired but they be­lieve the in­ci­dent was a reprisal for a mur­der that oc­curred about two weeks ago in Fyz­abad.

Joseph, a fa­ther of two and grand­fa­ther, lived alone.

How­ev­er, the lone sur­vivor told po­lice that she and the oth­er vic­tim Mar­vin Cross, 47, of Khan Street, Fyz­abad, was at Joseph home.

She said around 1.25 am she heard loud ex­plo­sions com­ing from the porch area.

When she ran to the porch, she saw Joseph on the ground with a gun­shot wound to the neck. He was not mov­ing.

As she ran to go back in­side, she was shot in the back. Cross was found down­stairs the house with a gun­shot wound to the head.

Joseph’s child­hood friend claimed Joseph was not friends with Cross or the woman.

He ques­tioned what they were do­ing at his home. He said Joseph who did odd jobs in the neigh­bour­hood changed his pen­sion cheque on Mon­day, vis­it­ed his daugh­ter, went to work and then went home.

Worlene Joseph

One of Joseph’s daugh­ters is a po­lice­woman. He said Joseph was born and grew up in the com­mu­ni­ty and as far as he knew he had no en­e­mies. De­scrib­ing him as a jol­ly and friend­ly per­son, he said Joseph liked danc­ing and crack­ing jokes.

“It not look­ing good in the area to see so much of killing, sense­less killing that ain’t make no sense at all.

Fox is not a man to in­ter­fere with peo­ple.”

He was shocked to learn that Cross was one of the vic­tims since he had not seen him in the area for a long time. How­ev­er, he said the fe­male vic­tim was al­ways in and out of the area.

He re­called hear­ing three loud ex­plo­sions. Mean­while, Cross’s moth­er said her son might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. She said he left home af­ter 9 pm on Mon­day and he nev­er com­plained of re­ceiv­ing threats.

She de­scribed him as a hap­py, lov­ing and kind-heart­ed per­son.

He was not mar­ried and had no wife or chil­dren.

Cross lived at Khan Street, Fyz­abad, not far from where Desmond Rawl­ins, a fish­er­man and food ven­dor, was gunned down on Jan­u­ary 13. Mon De­sir coun­cil­lor Der­rick Bowen who was at the scene ex­pressed con­cern about the crime sit­u­a­tion in Fyz­abad.

Lament­ing that Fyz­abad was a qui­et com­mu­ni­ty, he said,” I want to em­pha­sise to the po­lice Fyz­abad is be­com­ing a very hot spot. I have been get­ting a lot of re­ports from burgess­es around the area of strange ve­hi­cles be­ing in and out of the dis­trict so I think it some­thing that the po­lice should look at, maybe beef up pa­trols a bit in the area in the night­time to see if they could curb this crime sit­u­a­tion in Fyz­abad.”

For the year so far there have been three dou­ble mur­ders in South Trinidad, the first was in Pleas­antville and the oth­er at South Park, San Fer­nan­do.