Senior Reporter
shane.superville@guardian.co.tt
A relative of murdered construction worker Kevin Jack says he left the safety of his home after he was promised cash by someone he knew.
Jack, 43, was shot dead at Nelson Street Plannings, Port-of-Spain, at around 3 pm on Tuesday.
Officers of the Port-of-Spain Task Force received a report of a body on the second staircase of Building 38-41. They responded and found Jack’s body.
Speaking with Guardian Media Ltd at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, one of Jack’s relatives said people in the neighbourhood remembered him speaking on the phone to someone who promised to meet him and give him money.
She said she remembered hearing Jack speaking with someone on the phone since last week but did not meddle in the conversation.
“He was looking for a little money. Somebody told him to come out for some money as far as the other people in the building heard him talking on his phone. Since Friday he had been talking to somebody, but he was really secretive. He never really told me much to say who he was dealing up with,” she said.
“I’m not the kind of person to listen to your conversation because if it’s not about me or it’s not related to me, it’s not my business, so I won’t bother to listen.”
The relative said Jack went out to collect the money for his family as they did not have a lot of cash over the weekend.
She said Jack worked as a construction worker and was looking forward to attending an excursion with his common-law wife for his birthday on September 12 .
Asked if she knew why anyone wanted to hurt Jack, the relative said she knew him to be a friendly, well-liked person in the community and could not think of any motive for his killing.
She said, “He wasn’t on any badness. If he was on that in a past life, that’s not the person that I know. The person that I saw is a praying man. He was into badness before. He wasn’t on that when I met him.”
Police from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations are continuing investigations.