Rel­a­tives of 25-year-old fruit ven­dor Ju­nior Ville Blair, who was shot dead in his Point Fortin home on Sat­ur­day night, do not be­lieve rob­bery was the pri­ma­ry mo­tive for his killing.

“I think they came for him, but in the process, they did the rob­bery,” said his sis­ter, who could not give a rea­son why any­one would want to kill her broth­er.

Po­lice said Blair, al­so known as Boyie, of 10th Street, Techi­er Vil­lage, was at home with his girl­friend around 11.45 pm when three ski mask-wear­ing ban­dits forced their way in through the front door.

They ac­cost­ed the cou­ple in a bed­room and de­mand­ed jew­ellery and cash.

The sus­pects stole the woman’s $20,000 gold chain, a $15,000 gold band, and $140 cash. While one of the at­tack­ers open­ly called on his ac­com­plices to “spare she”, (the girl­friend) Blair was shot mul­ti­ple times by the armed ban­dits, who then ran off.

Po­lice re­cov­ered sev­er­al live 9mm rounds and spent shell cas­ings at the scene.

A rel­a­tive, who asked not to be named, said he heard the gun­shots and ran to Blair’s house, but the ban­dits were al­ready gone. He found Blair bleed­ing on the floor be­side the bed.

Blair’s sis­ter, who al­so did not want her name pub­lished, said he had spent about a year in jail for theft when he was 18 or 19 years old but had since turned his life around. She said he sold man­goes and oth­er fruits for a liv­ing and had built his own home.

“Every­body (sic) do their mis­takes in life. He live he life where at a point in time he was mis­er­able around (here). But if you ask any­body, they will say he was a very nice, re­spectable per­son,” she said.

She al­so de­scribed him as be­ing help­ful. “I not say­ing he is a saint. I not say­ing he is no per­fect child. He did he stuff where he must be touch peo­ple thing one or two times, and we got over that.”

Call­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion “ridicu­lous,” the griev­ing sis­ter said peo­ple were no longer safe in their own homes.

“I just hope we get jus­tice, how it’s sup­posed to be, and every­thing work out.”

She said that af­ter her broth­er was shot, his girl­friend ran out of the house to seek help and was left trau­ma­tised.

Of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion re­spond­ed, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing by of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion III.