RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

The fam­i­ly of busi­ness­man Gar­ry Mo­han is still in shock over his killing but say it’s time the coun­try takes a stand against the crim­i­nals.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, his wife Tracey Mo­han said her hus­band was a de­vot­ed fam­i­ly man.

“He would get up at 5 every morn­ing to read the Bible with them (chil­dren). Every­thing he worked for was for them. He nev­er left his chil­dren,” she said.

She added, “He had no en­e­mies. He was qui­et. If he went any­where, he took his chil­dren. He didn’t lime or mix up with peo­ple.”

Say­ing the fam­i­ly is look­ing for an­swers over Wednes­day’s at­tack, Tracey said, “It’s a shock to every­one. He was the youngest. No­body ex­pect­ed this. We don’t know who would want to hurt him, or why,” she said.

Lament­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion, Tracey added: “Too many peo­ple work­ing hard for their fam­i­lies are be­ing killed. The coun­try needs to stand up to this. Too many in­no­cent peo­ple are dy­ing. A whole fam­i­ly is shat­tered.”

Mean­while, Mo­han’s broth­er-in-law, Richard Heer­alal, said he was with him short­ly be­fore the shoot­ing.

“We had just come back from a job. We parked the truck, locked the gate, and were about to cross the road. A white Ti­i­da slowed down. I thought it stopped to let us pass. I crossed. Then I heard ex­plo­sions. One of the work­ers shout­ed, ‘They shoot­ing!’”

Heer­alal said they rushed Mo­han to the hos­pi­tal.

“He ran across in­to the yard and col­lapsed. We pulled him out and rushed him to hos­pi­tal.”

He de­nied spec­u­la­tion that the mur­der was linked to a fam­i­ly dis­pute over prop­er­ty.

“Peo­ple say­ing it’s about land and fam­i­ly fight­ing. That’s not true. This busi­ness has been here for over 40 years. It was start­ed by his fa­ther. All the broth­ers were in­volved. There’s noth­ing to fight over,” Heer­alal said.

He al­so said Mo­han nev­er re­port­ed any threats to po­lice.

“It’s a busi­ness, so you ex­pect all kinds of peo­ple to come in, but there were no se­ri­ous threats. Every­one is try­ing to fig­ure out why this hap­pened. Noth­ing comes to mind.”

Mean­while, Homi­cide de­tec­tives are prob­ing re­ports that Mo­han, the own­er of Chiney’s Wreck­ing Ser­vice, re­ceived threats days be­fore he was shot to death out­side his Friend­ship Vil­lage, Gol­con­da home.

Po­lice are now search­ing for three men.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the 39-year-old was leav­ing the garage of his Cipero Road res­i­dence around 4.25 pm when gun­men in a white Nis­san Ti­i­da drove by and opened fire. He was hit twice in the ab­domen, ran a short dis­tance and col­lapsed in his yard while dis­traught rel­a­tives looked on. Mo­han died dur­ing surgery at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice from the South­ern Di­vi­sion and the Homi­cide Bu­reau are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.