(Trinidad Express) A double murder has rocked Tobago.
The deceased are Akiem Frith of Rockly Vale, Scarborough, and Lawrence Fritz Allyen who were both shot dead outside Sherwin Williams Paints, Bon Accord, yesterday morning.
The murders come on the heels of the body of Jenelle Thomas-Stowe being found burnt in a drain on Gleneagles Drive, Mt Irvine, on Tuesday.
As a result, the murder toll on the island for the year is 13—three more than 2022.
Ripped apart by the murder of her son, Akiem Frith, Jemma Moses broke down in tears during an interview with the Express yesterday.
She said she was at home in Rockly Vale when she received the tragic news. “I was in my bed, someone had called and say ‘mommy, where your son’ and they said they heard he got killed,” Moses said.
She said she has placed the murder of her son in the hands of God. “I got emotional when I received the news, but what can I say? I knew it was coming, but everything is in the hands of God,” the distraught mother said.
“Akiem was everything to me, my heart. He was a child there for me, look my lover look meh mother, he was always there, but as I said God knows all things and everything is in the hands of the master,” she said.
According to police, around 12.55 a.m. yesterday officers were alerted to a shooting in Bon Accord near Sherwin Williams Paints.
They proceeded to the area, where the bullet-riddled bodies of two male individuals were seen lying motionless on the ground. Also on the roadway was a silver Tiida which bore several bullet holes.
Police said Frith was known to them as a member of the Six gang. Several 5.56 and 9mm spent shells were recovered from the scene.
Another man was injured by a stray bullet and was taken to the Scarborough General Hospital.
