Jude Hector would have welcomed his killer into his home, not expecting to be ambushed and shot.
Certain that the 16-year-old was gunned down by someone he knew and was familiar with, Hector’s brother Jerome Narine said, “He was a good boy who used to assist who he could.”
Angry over the killing, he admitted that a simple query to find out where Hector had been on Friday night, had earned him a gruff warning from the deceased not to “mind his business.”
Despite this, Narine said it was his brother and, though the two were not as close, they cared for each other.
Hector was killed on Sunday after being shot in the head several times around 1.35 pm as he sat in the gallery of his Laundry Road, Caroni home, sipping from a bottle of Moscato wine.
Hector’s mother, Ann Rose Rampersad and Narine, were both inside the house when the killing occurred.
Speaking with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre, St James yesterday, Narine said his brother had his “mad ways” when he was ready, but this was no reason to kill him.
Asked why he was so certain Hector knew his killer, Narine insisted, “He had to know them because nobody don’t come in we yard just so.”
Narine added: “He only had head shots...no body shots and they walked up in the gallery and hit him, which means he had to know them. He was video chatting with his girlfriend, which means he knew them, because he told them to come in.”
Unable to say if Hector had been part of any gang, he said his brother was quite popular and had a few friends who would usually gather at their house.
Angry that Hector had died without even seeing his 10-month-old daughter, Narine said his brother had been denied the opportunity to be a father and it was just sad that numerous lives had now been disrupted.
—Anna-Lisa Paul
