Senior Reporter
anna-lisa.paul
@guardian.co.tt
Relatives of a St James man who was abducted in Port-of-Spain on Sunday and taken to Rock City, Laventille, where he was killed, were yesterday struggling to piece together what happened in the hours leading up to his death.
Police said Johnathan Shortt, 25, left his wife and twin babies at home at 10 am on Saturday, and headed to the grocery to get chicken and potatoes to cook for lunch.
However, he never made it back home.
Instead, his wife received a call around 2 pm that his bullet-riddled body had been discovered at La Pena Drive Extension, Upper Thomasine Street, Laventille.
Residents in the area reported hearing gunshots at 11.55 am and contacted police, who arrived to find Shortt on a grassy track south of La Pena Drive.
Police suspect Shortt had been abducted from George Street, Port-of-Spain, as he was purchasing groceries.
Yesterday, a close female relative was at a loss for words as she held her head while at the Forensic Science Centre, St James.
“He was a jolly, kind-hearted person, always making sure you okay,” she said.
The relative, who asked not to be named, said Shortt never spoke about being threatened or frightened by anyone.
She added, “He would do anything for anybody.”
Shortt’s children—a boy and a girl—will turn one next week.
Asked what kind of husband, father, brother and friend Shortt had been, relatives yesterday said, “He was the best to everyone, to the best of his ability.”
They said he had been working hard at a supermarket in St James to earn enough money to move his family into their own house.
In an unrelated matter, police were probing the murder of a man in Morvant, after the man’s body was found wrapped in plastic down a precipice yesterday afternoon.
