Although he was “in the life,” the aunt of Shaquille Corrindon, who was shot in the head last Friday and died the following day, said he was not deserving of a bullet to the back of the head, especially since he had “cooled down.”
According to police reports, Corrindon was shot in the head while seated in the front seat of a car on Tragarete Road, Port-of-Spain, around 11.45 pm on Friday.
He died around 2 am Saturday. Police believe his killing was gang related.
Speaking with the media yesterday outside the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, Melissa Findley said her nephew, who went by the alias “George Bush,” was killed because he trusted a woman.
“At the end of the day no one is perfect. He wasn’t a perfect fella. Yes, we know the life he living. We accept if you live it then it will happen so.
“He was nice and loving... he ain’t deserve to dead so. It was a gyal he went to meet,” Findley said.
She added that the police ought to stop the killing, adding that the Rasta City vs Muslim war started four years ago.
She said everyone in East Port-of-Spain area grew up together and should unite instead of fighting.
Findley said the ongoing war had forced she and her family out of their Laventille home, since gunmen had threatened to kill “anything close to George Bush.”
“This war thing have to stop. It have a God. That boy may not be perfect, eh, but at the end of the day them chose that life but still he ain’t deserve that. He let a woman take him astray,” Findley added.
The murder toll now stands at 123 for the year, 25 less than the figure at the same stage last year.