Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
Relatives of murdered Claxton Bay resident Brandon Barclay have many questions surrounding his death but are not confident the police will provide any answers.
“It’s puzzling,” lamented a relative at Barclay’s home in Springvale yesterday.
Barclay, 30, a computer and phone technician, was shot five times but yesterday his relatives still had no clue about how or where he was shot, or why he was targeted.
Police were told that two men in a white Nissan B14 dropped him off at the Couva District Health Facility at 6 am on Saturday and left the compound.
Investigators tried to speak to Barclay but he was unresponsive. He was then transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital for further medical attention. He died at 1.30 pm in the operating theatre.
Barclay left his home at Springvale at 9 pm on Friday to lime with friends at Paria’s Bar and Lounge in Claxton Bay and was seen there around 10 pm.
When the police went to the bar, however, neither the employees nor the patrons were aware of any shooting incident at the establishment.
His relative, who requested anonymity, said they never expected he would have met such a violent death. “Everybody shocked. He is not a gangster person... He never get in trouble with the law or whatsoever.”
Lamenting the low crime detection rate in the country, he said, “They never hold nobody and that is our problem in Trinidad. They not holding nobody and bringing them to justice. How many unsolved murders it have and this is a next unsolved one again.”
With the Budget being read today, he said it doesn’t matter if they pump more resources into fighting crime. He believes the issue is that the police hierarchy was not being held accountable.
Officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region 3 are investigating.