A Cunu­pia man who went to vis­it his moth­er and at­tend a wake in Bel­mont was shot and killed on Wednes­day night.

Po­lice said Lev­ei Mor­gan-Gloud, 20, was stand­ing on the road at a wake along Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Layan Hill, Bel­mont, at 8.15 pm on Ju­ly 3, when he was shot.

He was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was pro­nounced dead at 8.30 pm.

Speak­ing with re­porters at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, a male rel­a­tive, who asked not to be named, claimed so­cial me­dia had been por­tray­ing the Mor­gan-Gould as a gun­man which sim­ply was not true.

“He is not no gun­man. He al­ways have a smile on him. Peo­ple used to call him a smil­ing Bud­dha. He would do any­thing for any­body,” the rel­a­tive said.

Con­front­ed with the pic­ture, that cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial l me­dia, show­ing him hold­ing an au­to­mat­ic ri­fle, an­oth­er man in­ter­rupt­ed, “Any­body could take out a pic­ture with a gun now. Yuh done know the area we liv­ing, yuh done know what go­ing on, you un­der­stand that kicksy thing.”