The fam­i­ly of 19-year-old Aaron Ram­nar­ine is call­ing for jus­tice, as they are dis­put­ing the cir­cum­stances in which he was killed by po­lice of­fi­cers yes­ter­day.

The young man’s fam­i­ly said Ram­nar­ine was just about to have break­fast when of­fi­cers at­tached to the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force knocked on his at­tached one-room home and opened fire, hit­ting Ram­nar­ine three times about the body.

Ram­nar­ine had no pri­or con­vic­tions and is the fa­ther of a month-old ba­by.

Ram­nar­ine’s moth­er Can­dace Roberts told Guardian Me­dia that she will not leave this mat­ter un­done.

“Po­lice can­not say that my son is known to them and I am not the type of par­ent to con­done non­sense be­cause if you do wrong or do some­thing, I am not the par­ent to stand by you, but if you are in the right, I am go­ing to stand by you to the end and in this mat­ter, I am go­ing to stand,” she Roberts said.

She claimed that as her son opened his door to the of­fi­cers yes­ter­day, he was shot.

“No war­rant was shown to the oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers and if he was the sus­pect of a crime, they could have tak­en him to the sta­tion and ques­tioned and now he can­not tell his side of the sto­ry. He is gone and the fam­i­ly is heart­bro­ken as they can­not come to terms with what hap­pened,” a tear­ful Roberts said.

She al­so de­nied the po­lice’s claim that Ram­nar­ine had a gun, not­ing they did not leave her prop­er­ty with any gun.

Ram­nar­ine was ex­pect­ed to re­turn to work yes­ter­day at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, where he was re­mov­ing scrap iron from an old aero­plane.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice re­port in­to the in­ci­dent, North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers were on an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Irv­ing Street and Mount Hope area as they con­tin­ued an ex­er­cise in search of sus­pects in the re­cent Irv­ing Street, Pe­tit Bourg mur­ders.

The of­fi­cers said one of their col­leagues knocked on Ram­nar­ine’s door and when it was opened, he (Ram­nar­ine) point­ed a gun at them and, fear­ing for their lives, they opened fire.

Po­lice are con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions

Ram­nar­ine’s fam­i­ly is ex­pect­ed to go to the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty to make an of­fi­cial re­port.

- Ot­to Car­ring­ton

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