Mere days after the anniversary of his mother’s murder, a 35-year-old man suffered a similar fate after he was gunned down near his Pleasantville home on Thursday night.
One of Daniel Gray’s siblings said his brother’s death brought back tragic memories of their mother, Charmayne Gray’s murder in February 2019.
A police report said around 7.05 pm residents heard loud explosions and then found Gray in a drain not far from his home at Cherry Drive, Pleasantville.
A relative and neighbour took him to the San Fernando General Hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Gray’s older brother Joshua Gray said his brother lived a stone’s throw away from where their mother lived.
He recalled that she was struck by a stray bullet while lying on a couch in her home. The car came down the street and the occupants started firing randomly.
One of the bullets went through the wall of the house and struck her. She died more than a week later on February 13, at the San Fernando General Hospital.
He said after their mother died they got through by the Grace of God and now they have to deal with another tragedy.
He said Gray had been charged with possession of marijuana but the cases had been dismissed and he had turned his life around.
Joshua said his brother was the father of four children under the age of ten, with the fourth child, a girl, being born just a month ago.
He said as far as he knew his brother had not received any threats.
Denying that his brother’s death was gang-related, he said Gray worked with a neighbour in the construction field.
“No, no, there are no gangs around here. He was more to himself,” he said.
Joshua was not confident that he would get justice for his brother as they never got justice for their mother’s murder.
Crime scene investigators recovered two spent 9 mm shell casings at the scene.
An autopsy is expected to be done next week at the Forensic Science Centre, Port-of-Spain, on Monday.
Officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region 3 are investigating. —Sascha Wilson
