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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Bikers want justice for Rianna

by

Gail Alexander
1006 days ago
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Rianna Victoria Mohammed seen here at a motorcycle riders show in Tobago. Mohammed was gunned down in Arima last Wednesday.

Rianna Victoria Mohammed seen here at a motorcycle riders show in Tobago. Mohammed was gunned down in Arima last Wednesday.

Mem­bers of the mo­tor­cy­cling fra­ter­ni­ty want jus­tice for Ri­an­na Vic­to­ria Mo­hammed, who was gunned down last week.

Mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty said her love for cook­ing and fun-lov­ing spir­it will be re­mem­bered as well as Ri­an­na’s big heart.

“Ri­an­na would have turned 27 on Oc­to­ber 8. She was born un­der the as­tro­log­i­cal sign of Li­bra, the scales of jus­tice. Every­one who tru­ly cared about her, want jus­tice for her death—as she would have want­ed al­so,” said mourn­ers pay­ing trib­ute to Mo­hammed at wakes in East Trinidad last week­end.

Mo­hammed, 26, a cos­me­tol­o­gist of McIn­roy Street, Curepe, was mur­dered around 9 pm last Wednes­day at Hoyte Road, off Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, af­ter sus­tain­ing mul­ti­ple bul­let wounds to the neck and body.

She died on the spot. Twen­ty-plus shells were found on the ground near her body by in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Mo­hammed and a Coast Guards­man friend and his broth­er, al­so a Coast Guards­man, had gone to vis­it an­oth­er friend at Hoyte Road last Wednes­day when she was shot. Her friend was grazed by a bul­let. His broth­er sus­tained no in­jury, po­lice of­fi­cials said.

Po­lice who last week had no mo­tive for the mur­der, con­tin­ue in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done on Mo­hammed’s body to­day. A fu­ner­al is ten­ta­tive­ly sched­uled for lat­er this week.

Mo­hammed had keen­ly fol­lowed and sup­port­ed mo­tor­bike ac­tiv­i­ties. Mem­bers of the bik­ing fra­ter­ni­ty who paid trib­ute to her at last week­end’s gath­er­ings re­called she’d at­tend­ed the wake of one La Brea rid­er up to last Tues­day be­fore her own death.

Her friends and rel­a­tives are ques­tion­ing if she had been tar­get­ed or if she was a “col­lat­er­al dam­age” vic­tim. Some at the gath­er­ings said, “There have been so many mur­ders that for her to have fall­en vic­tim in that land­scape, makes it more nec­es­sary to seek jus­tice for her.

“Guns, gun­shots and as­sas­si­na­tions were nev­er part of Ri­an­na’s world. She was a typ­i­cal young per­son, lov­ing life, sweet, out­go­ing and very trust­ing. To see her life end­ed like this is a huge shock.”

One woman added, “She was in To­ba­go three weeks ago and said it was her first time back since age nine. Ri­an­na said she al­ways want­ed to cross wa­ter and she was over­joyed she’d got­ten her wish to have done so.”


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