Al­though Isa­iah Roberts will be laid to rest to­mor­row, his fam­i­ly says their call for jus­tice will not end un­til the of­fi­cers in­volved are put be­hind bars.

At a can­dle­light vig­il on Tues­day di­rect­ly at the spot where he was killed on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, his grand­moth­er Michelle John said plac­ing the eight of­fi­cers in­volved in the deaths of three young men in Port-of-Spain on desk du­ty is not enough.

“We need them out of the build­ing, out of the of­fice, we need them put be­hind bars be­cause they take in­no­cent lives,” Roberts’s grand­moth­er said.

Roberts, 17, was the youngest per­son shot and killed by po­lice on In­de­pen­dence Square, near Cha­con Street, just af­ter 3 am. His fam­i­ly said he was re­turn­ing home from a par­ty in Diego Mar­tin.

The oth­ers killed were Leonar­do Williams and Fabi­an Richards.

Isa­iah was an as­pir­ing me­chan­ic who was set to trav­el to meet his preg­nant moth­er in New York yes­ter­day.

“Right now, she is not cop­ing, she can’t hold up, she’s not cop­ing be­cause she alone out there,” John said.

But while John held a peace­ful vig­il, she un­der­stood why there were fiery protests in the cap­i­tal city on Mon­day.

“Well, it’s in­no­cent chil­dren die so the peo­ple take it in­to their hands to do their things, they want jus­tice, we all want jus­tice for our chil­dren be­cause they are young chil­dren,” John said.

She be­lieves once God is on their side, they will get jus­tice.

Aside from a heavy po­lice pres­ence in the cap­i­tal city to quell the res­i­dents’ rage, act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob said se­nior of­fi­cers met with the rel­a­tives of the vic­tims on Mon­day. How­ev­er, John said she was not part of any meet­ing.

“No po­lice ain’t come to us, to our house, they ain’t call, they ain’t do noth­ing, they ain’t show their re­spect, they ain’t do noth­ing,” she said.

Fabi­an Richards was the boyfriend of John’s oth­er daugh­ter, who she said was not cop­ing well ei­ther.

Mean­while, the rel­a­tives of the three young men have pre­pared their fu­ner­als—17-year-old Isa­iah will be laid to rest to­mor­row with a ser­vice at Simp­son’s Fu­ner­al home.

On Mon­day, Fa­bi­en Richards and Leonar­do Williams’ fu­ner­als will be held at Beetham Gar­dens, Phase 5 Bas­ket­ball Court and then to the Tu­na­puna Ceme­tery.