Relatives of the country’s most wanted man, Azmon “Pappi” Alexander, are urging him to surrender to police before he is killed. Alexander, 28, is wanted in connection with the disappearance and death of two members of a Brasso Seco family and murder of the family’s neighbour. Speaking with the T&T Guardian at her Sunset Drive, Malabar home yesterday, Alexander’s former girlfriend Ameilia Hosein, the mother of his 17-month-old son Antonio Hosein, cried as she called on him to surrender.
She said during their six-year relationship she never thought he was capable of kidnapping and murder, especially the murder of a child, since he too was the father of a child near the same age. “I didn’t believe it, I am still shocked, but he have a son,” Hosein said, holding their child and wiping away tears. The 22-year-old expectant mother added: “He have a son, how he could do a child that? He (Alexander) never see him (Hosein) and can’t give him anything. “Give up yourself, if he isn’t thinking about himself he should think about his son and the family he hurt. It makes no sense.”
On October 26, Irma Rampersad, 49, and her daughters Felicia, 17, and Jenelle Gonzales, 19, and Janelle’s 14-month-old daughter, Shania Amoroso, were abducted from their Bleu Road, Brasso Seco home. One day later they were reported missing by Felix Martinez, 52, who said he awoke to find a kitchen window broken and the women and child missing. A few days later, Martinez went missing and was believed to have been hunting. Martinez’s body was found along with baby Shania wrapped in a sleeping bag on November 8, while Rampersad’s body was found on November 11.
An autopsy done on the bodies revealed Martinez and Rampersad were strangled while the autopsy on Shania was inconclusive because of the advanced state of decomposition. The two Gonzales sisters were rescued by police at a makeshift camp in the Brasso Seco forest last Friday, following a shootout with two men who escaped in the bushes. One of them, a 17-year-old, surrendered to police the following day and is assisting them with their investigations. The teens are now under police guard at the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex, Mt Hope, and are said to be traumatised by the events. The sisters have since been told that their mother and baby Shania are dead.
Sister: He’s no monster
Yesterday, Hosein said she was told by police on Saturday that Alexander may be heading her way and she should be careful, since he threatened in the past to kill her and her new boyfriend.
A two-minute drive from Hosein’s home, at Ackbarali Street, Malabar, Alexander’s sister, Vanessa, said her elder brother is no monster and could not possibly hurt a child. She said her brother told her years ago that he would never hurt a child and was loved by children.
She said the last time she spoke to him was on November 6, his birthday, which he shares with his niece Amia. She said he called just to say hello. “He would never hurt a baby. I don’t mind they say he kill the woman or man, but not the baby, I don’t believe that,” Vanessa said. “He liked decorating and going in the bush to hunt, that is why it hard for them to ketch him, he know the bush.
“Everybody have their good and bad ways and no one would think he was capable of what he is accused of if they met him.”
She added: “I find he should just give up so they wouldn’t shoot him to kill him, even if he there until he is an old man, I rather that then they riddle him up (with bullets).” Alexander’s mother Mary said her son began acting delinquently after her husband Emmanuel died in 2000. Two years after his father’s death, she said, Alexander was arrested for the first time.
She said when her son escaped from the Mayaro Magistrates Court on January 31, after he had appeared on charges of kidnapping and robbery, she told him not to come back home. She said she was surprised about what she was hearing her son being accused of.
She said last week she tried to convince him to surrender but he said he was not ready. Her son, she said, used to attend church regularly and when she saw his picture in the media all she could do was say, “Oh God!”