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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Man murdered in St Margaret’s

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23 days ago
20250410

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.


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