Mark Bas­sant

The son of de­ceased jour­nal­ist Mar­cia Henville was shot and killed yes­ter­day in one of two shoot­ings that took place hours apart along the East-West cor­ri­dor.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as 25-year-old Isa­iah Chioke Cadet from Man­dev­il­la Av­enue, Pen­co Gar­dens, Ch­agua­nas.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors told Guardian Me­dia that short­ly af­ter 3 pm they re­ceived a call about loud ex­plo­sions be­ing heard along Mehe­lal Street in Aranguez.

When po­lice ar­rived on the scene they found two men in the front seat of a Toy­ota mo­tor­car with gun­shot wounds. Cadet it ap­peared had al­ready suc­cumbed to his in­juries, while an­oth­er man, yet to be iden­ti­fied was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Sci­ences Com­plex to be treat­ed for mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

A team of homi­cide of­fi­cers and of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion un­der Se­nior Supt Phillip and Supt Alexan­der scoured the area for clues in the shoot­ing. In­ves­ti­ga­tors on the scene told Guardian Me­dia they had no clear mo­tive for the killing at this time.

Cadet’s moth­er, Mar­cia Henville a well-known jour­nal­ist and tele­vi­sion per­son­al­i­ty was killed at her Fi­delis Height home in St Au­gus­tine on Jan­u­ary 23, 2015. An au­top­sy re­vealed then that she had been stabbed, beat­en and her throat slit.

Her hus­band, Shel­don Henville was lat­er charged with her mur­der.

He was com­mit­ted to stand tri­al, and the mat­ter is ex­pect­ed to be­gin short­ly be­fore the Port-of-Spain High Court.

Shel­don Henville was treat­ed for four weeks for burns suf­fered the day of his wife’s death, and af­ter he re­cov­ered, he was charged.

Many res­i­dents de­scribed the area as “usu­al­ly qui­et” and ex­pressed shock over the killing.

Po­lice could not say whether this killing had been re­lat­ed to a dou­ble shoot­ing that oc­curred ear­li­er that day close to noon at Tem­ple Street in Mount Lam­bert. In that in­ci­dent res­i­dents con­tact­ed po­lice af­ter hear­ing a bar­rage of gun­fire.

When po­lice ar­rived on the scene two men were found with gun­shot wounds and lat­er tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex where they were treat­ed and ward­ed in se­ri­ous but sta­ble con­di­tions.

The gun­men, po­lice were in­formed, made their get­away in a sil­ver Nis­san Wingroad fol­low­ing this shoot­ing.

Cadet’s killing took the coun­try’s mur­der count to 194. For the same pe­ri­od last year, the fig­ure was 215.