(Trinidad Guardian) Two men were killed in separate incidents between yesterday and Monday night in Gonzales and Laventille.
The victims are:
• Junior Philbert, 27, a father of two, of Pipol Road, Santa Cruz.
• Danny Lyndsey, 27, of Robinson Avenue, Laventille.
There were 53 murders for this year, up to late yesterday. Police said around 9 pm, Philbert, a father of two, was at his girlfriend’s house at Gloster Lodge Road, Gonzales, when an armed man jumped over the fence and said it was a robbery. Philbert’s girlfriend said she then heard five gunshots. She ran outside and saw Philbert lying on the ground bleeding.
The victim’s mother, Dorothy Sorzano, said in an interview yesterday that her son and his girlfriend had been robbed four times in the past few years while they were at her house. “That is not the first time that they were robbed,” Sorzano said. “Last year, they were robbed around Carnival time…People always harassing them for money and four times it happened.
“He (Philbert) doesn’t keep much friends. He doesn’t smoke or drink and always has a Bible with him…He goes to church every Sunday.” She described him as a “Christian-oriented man who doesn’t keep much friends. Sorzano said Philbert would have turned 28 on March 3.
Meanwhile, investigators said Lyndsey was shot dead while as he slept yesterday at Robinson Avenue, Laventille. Police said Lyndsey was asleep on a mattress in an abandoned house off Pashley Street. A report said around 5.35 am, residents heard several loud explosions and when they checked Lyndsey was found lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. Relatives immediately notified the police.
The victim’s mother, Gail Lyndsey said her two other sons, Andre and Tyson, were killed in separate incidents during the past few years. A passer-by said: “He don’t trouble nobody. Them Beetham men always distressing people around here,” a passer-by said. Another man who was at the scene said he was robbed by a gunman shortly before Lyndsey was killed.
