Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
Relatives of Kendell Doolal, who was murdered on Tuesday night, believe jealousy on his job site was the reason for his killing.
According to reports, 29-year-old Doolal was shot on his way to the St Margaret’s Police Station to report a colleague who had smashed his windscreen and threatened to kill him.
Police said sometime before 8 pm, as Doolal drove into Ojer Ali Drive in St Margaret’s Village, Claxton Bay, which is near the police station, in his gold Mazda 3, a gunshot rang out.
Shortly after, he was seen running out of the street towards the police station, but he collapsed and died along the main road.
At their Upper Hillside, San Fernando, home yesterday, his grief-stricken mother, Charmain Stephen, cried, “I would have taken that bullet for him. I will get justice for this. The Lord is going to answer my prayers. My heart is clean, and I never dirtied my hands. He is going to answer my prayers.”
Stephen said the suspect worked with her son and often threatened him because he was jealous that her son was “getting more work”.
She said Doolal complained to his boss, but he was tired of the threats and was contemplating quitting his job. On Tuesday, she said, Doolal called in frustration because the suspect had broken his windscreen.
The mother advised him to go to the police station, and she was supposed to meet him, but she could not reach him on his phone.
“My belly started to hurt me, and I told his brother something is wrong.”
Stephens alleged Doolal was on his way to the police station when he saw the suspect and confronted him, after which he was shot in the chest. Noting that her son was married and had three young children, she sobbed, “He was a quiet, happy and loving child.”
Investigators retrieved one spent 9 mm shell casing at the scene. Officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region 3 are investigating.