Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Heart­bro­ken over his son’s mur­der, a South Oropouche fa­ther is hop­ing a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion will un­cov­er why his son was killed and lead to the ar­rest of those re­spon­si­ble.

An emo­tion­al Hard­eo Bun­see spoke with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day at his War­den Road home, where his son, Dil­lon Bun­see, was fa­tal­ly shot by a lone gun­man on Thurs­day night.

Bun­see worked as a straight­en­er and painter at the fam­i­ly’s au­to re­pair garage.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Bun­see and his 24-year-old girl­friend had re­turned home ear­li­er that day and were ar­gu­ing loud­ly in the garage area. Short­ly af­ter 11 pm, an as­sailant ap­proached the garage and fired sev­er­al shots at Bun­see. Nei­ther his girl­friend nor two friends, who were al­so in the garage, were in­jured.

Bun­see’s fa­ther said he was awak­ened by his ve­hi­cle’s alarm. As he came out­side, one of his son’s friends told him that Dil­lon had been shot.

He said his son had been shot in the neck and head and was bleed­ing on the ground.

The fa­ther al­so ex­pressed dis­sat­is­fac­tion with what he be­lieved was a lack of ur­gency by at­ten­dants when they ar­rived at the hos­pi­tal.

“At ca­su­al­ty, they were mov­ing like some­one came for a Panadol for a headache,” he said.

De­scrib­ing his son, a fa­ther of one, as a hard­work­ing man, he said the fam­i­ly was dev­as­tat­ed by his death and was hop­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors would un­cov­er the rea­son for the killing and bring those re­spon­si­ble to jus­tice.

“I am not ac­cus­tomed to this kind of in­ci­dent. It shock­ing and sad. On­ly two sons I have. As a par­ent, I would like jus­tice. His killer can’t just be out­side free and run­ning. He was a lov­ing, nice per­son to his fam­i­ly,” the fa­ther lament­ed.

De­scrib­ing the mur­der as shock­ing, neigh­bours said they heard gun­shots on Thurs­day night but on­ly learned of Bun­see’s death the fol­low­ing morn­ing.

A neigh­bour re­called, “I heard Dil­lon and his girl­friend quar­relling in the road. A few min­utes lat­er, I heard rapid gun­fire. We were ac­cus­tomed to hear­ing them quar­relling and cussing.”

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered six 9mm spent shell cas­ings from the scene. Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion Three Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.