KEVON FELMINE
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Sev­er­al peo­ple scam­pered for their lives as gun­men stormed a Clax­ton Bay bar on Sat­ur­day night, mur­der­ing ex­pec­tant fa­ther Ky­ron Mar­cano and in­jur­ing oth­ers.Mar­cano was one of four peo­ple killed on Sat­ur­day night.

Mar­cano, 28, of St John’s Road, Clax­ton Bay, died with­in min­utes of gun­men shoot­ing him sev­er­al times as he hung out at the Club Clas­sic along Her­mitage Road, Union Vil­lage. Po­lice said an­oth­er woman from the area suf­fered gun­shot wounds and was sta­ble at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.
Sur­veil­lance footage showed pa­trons lim­ing out­side the bar around 10 pm when two men wear­ing hood­ies ran in­to the bar. Armed with a hand­gun and ri­fle, the gun­men be­gan shoot­ing at Mar­cano as he sat around a ta­ble with oth­ers. Pa­trons in­side and out­side the bar ran out.

The gun­men re­treat­ed, but the one with the ri­fle re­turned and fired at least 10 more shots at Mar­cano as he lay on the ground bleed­ing.
St Mar­garet’s po­lice re­spond­ed and launched a search for the gun­men but were un­suc­cess­ful in find­ing them up to yes­ter­day.
Rel­a­tives, friends and fam­i­ly gath­ered at Mar­cano’s home yes­ter­day, con­fused about his death.

Af­ter see­ing the footage of the mur­der, Mar­cano’s younger broth­er Kerdel be­lieved it was an ex­e­cu­tion. How­ev­er, Kerdel could not say what his broth­er did to de­serve such a hor­rid faith. He said Mar­cano usu­al­ly walked away from con­flict.
“Usu­al­ly, he is a man who does not be in any­thing. He does not be in any bac­cha­nal. He and no­body were in any war.”
Giv­en that his broth­er went to the bar to lime, Kerdel said Mar­cano did not fear that any­one would try to kill him. If any­one threat­ened them, Mar­cano would have said so.
Mar­cano would have turned 28 on Sep­tem­ber 25 and his wife was preg­nant with his sec­ond child. He and Kerdel ran a trans­port ser­vice busi­ness.
Kerdel re­called reach­ing home around 9 pm af­ter pick­ing up his girl­friend.
He re­mem­bered see­ing Mar­cano home be­fore he left but did not think any­thing of him not be­ing home. He thought Mar­cano went to check on a friend. But as it got lat­er, he be­gan to won­der why Mar­cano had not re­turned him.
“I just sat in the kitchen, now take out some food and warm it in the mi­crowave. I just took one spoon­ful of the food when some­body came call­ing out­side. The way the per­son called, I could tell some­thing hap­pened,” Kerdel said.
It was their neigh­bour.

“She said do not cry.”
Kerdel said she even­tu­al­ly broke the news that some­one killed her broth­er at a bar less than a five-minute walk away. Kerdel im­me­di­ate­ly got in­to his ve­hi­cle and drove to the bar. How­ev­er, those around told him his broth­er was on the way to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.
Re­flect­ing on how his broth­er died, Kerdel said it was all fea­tures of the world to­day.

“Trinidad & To­ba­go, that is where we reach right now. Ri­fles and hand­guns are like socks and shoes on the road. Every­body has one. Every­body is wear­ing one.”

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, two peo­ple were killed and three were in­jured while lim­ing in Mal­ick.

The vic­tims were iden­ti­fied as Kun­ta An­drews, 39, of Barataria and An­tho­ny Sar­jeant, 59, of Mal­ick. The sur­viv­ing vic­tims of the gun at­tack are two men and a woman, all of Sixth Av­enue in Barataria.

Po­lice said around 5.40 pm, the group was lim­ing at the cor­ner of 6th Av­enue and 10th Street, when a car pulled up and its oc­cu­pants opened fire. The gun­men then sped off.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent around 8.25 pm, Bevon Grant, 23, of Mal­oney, was fa­tal­ly shot when he was con­front­ed by a lone gun­man who came out of a car. Po­lice said he was shot sev­er­al times and sub­se­quent­ly tak­en to the hos­pi­tal, where he suc­cumbed to his in­juries.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to both in­ci­dents.