Rel­a­tives of mur­der vic­tim Ri­an­na Vic­to­ria Mo­hammed say the young woman was not promis­cu­ous, but rather loved life, loved to look pret­ty and loved to par­ty.

Her on­ly mis­take, rel­a­tives said, was that, “she fell in love with a de­mon.”

Mo­hammed, 26, of Mc In­roy Street, Curepe, was killed around 9 pm on Wednes­day while lim­ing with a male friend at Bo­lo Trace, Hoyte Av­enue, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma.

Po­lice said the cos­me­tol­o­gist was in the com­pa­ny of a 37-year-old Coast Guard of­fi­cer from Chat­tam when gun­men opened fire on them.

Mo­hammed died on the spot, while the able-bod­ied sea­man was grazed in the neck.

Griev­ing the sud­den loss of her el­dest child and on­ly daugh­ter yes­ter­day, Nali­ni Mo­hammed said while Ri­an­na had nev­er been a mod­el child, she was cer­tain­ly loved and spoilt.

Lash­ing out against pub­lic crit­i­cism on so­cial me­dia that Ri­an­na had been forced in­to a cer­tain type of lifestyle af­ter her par­ents part­ed ways, she said, “We are not rich peo­ple but we are not hand to mouth ei­ther.

“Peo­ple don’t know how much I went with­out to make sure my three chil­dren had every­thing they want­ed. As old as they are now, they on­ly have to say I want…and their fa­ther and I will go all out to pro­vide it for them.”

Mo­hammed is al­so a moth­er to two boys, aged 18 and 14.

The head­strong busi­ness­woman, who ad­mit­ted her throat was raw yes­ter­day af­ter scream­ing all night on Wednes­day, said, “Peo­ple are say­ing on so­cial me­dia that she did what she had to do to sur­vive. That is the biggest, nas­ti­est, lie they could have said about my child. My child nev­er need­ed for any­thing. She on­ly had to ask. It was the most hurt­ful thing to say.”

Say­ing she had spent much to en­sure the for­mer Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics em­ploy­ee com­plet­ed a cos­me­tol­ogy course, as she al­ways loved to do hair and make-up, Mo­hammed cried, “That per­son who took my daugh­ter’s life is go­ing to burn in hell.”

“Ri­an­na was not a per­fect daugh­ter, no hu­man be­ing is per­fect,” Mo­hammed whis­pered, “She was lov­ing. She was a won­der­ful per­son. Yes, she liked to lime and par­ty. What young la­dy or young man doesn’t?”

De­fend­ing Ri­an­na’s char­ac­ter against those who were quick to la­bel her, Mo­hammed said, “My daugh­ter was not a slut. She fell in love with a de­mon.”

Choos­ing her words care­ful­ly as she spoke of an al­leged se­cret re­la­tion­ship Ri­an­na had been in­volved in, Mo­hammed said she had plead­ed with her nu­mer­ous times to leave the mar­ried man.

“I al­ways told her…Ri­an­na, you are beau­ti­ful, you are sexy, you don’t de­serve this.”

The moth­er re­called urg­ing her daugh­ter to walk away and to ful­fil her dream of mar­ry­ing and pro­vid­ing grand­chil­dren.

Say­ing she and Ri­an­na both had the same fiery per­son­al­i­ties and of­ten clashed on the is­sue, Mo­hammed cried bit­ter­ly as she said they were not on speak­ing terms when Ri­an­na died.

The griev­ing moth­er shared more in­ti­mate de­tails re­gard­ing Ri­an­na’s clan­des­tine re­la­tion­ship, but said the sit­u­a­tion came to a head in March, fol­low­ing which Ri­an­na claimed to have bro­ken it off with the man.

How­ev­er, un­known to her and oth­er rel­a­tives, Ri­an­na con­tin­ued with him.

Mo­hammed said it was on­ly fol­low­ing Wednes­day’s killing that she learnt Ri­an­na had dis­closed to cer­tain rel­a­tives and friends that she was be­ing phys­i­cal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly abused and had been sub­ject­ed to threats, both from the man and oth­ers close to him.

Still pro­cess­ing the loss of her daugh­ter, Mo­hammed said, “We can­not have moth­er/daugh­ter fights any­more. Like I said be­fore, she was not per­fect but her good ways out­weighed her bad ways.”

Hav­ing ac­cept­ed an of­fer for coun­selling from the TTPS, Mo­hammed said her daugh­ter be­ing gunned down like a “beast or a big-time crim­i­nal” still feels sur­re­al.

Up to 3 pm yes­ter­day, Mo­hammed said she had not been able to see her daugh­ter’s body and she begged, “I need to see my daugh­ter. I need to see her be­cause I don’t know if some­body is ly­ing to me and they just put up her pic­ture…I think­ing some­body be­ing cru­el and play­ing a prank on me.”

The moth­er said her two sons have been plunged in­to grief, since Ri­an­na was not just their sis­ter but was like a sec­ond moth­er to them.

Mo­hammed said she in­tends to seek re­venge through prayer.

“I will put on my hi­jab and go down on my knees every night and cry to my God,” she end­ed.

Ri­an­na would have turned 27 on Oc­to­ber 8.

Com­ment­ing on one of Ri­an­na’s pic­tures that had been cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day, Mo­hammed wrote, “RIP my first born my princess, you left me with­out say­ing good­bye your fam­i­ly will miss you for­ev­er and love you for­ev­er.”

An­oth­er per­son wrote, “Too much blood­shed in this lit­tle coun­try now SIP Vic­to­ria.”

Po­lice are pur­su­ing the case.