Police are probing a phone call made to murder victim Simeon Gibbs Waldron less than an hour before he was executed at the Rambert Village Cemetery, San Fernando, on Wednesday night.
Waldron, 22, a loader at the San Fernando City Corporation for the past two years was found lying faced down at the entrance of the cemetery with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
According to police, residents of Dumfries Road reported hearing several gunshots around 11.20 pm.
A party of officers, including ASP Ali Mohammed, Insp Don Gajadhar and Sgt Steve Persad, responded and found Waldron dead with his work bag besides him. Investigators said they had no motive for his killing, especially as he had no criminal record.
Tears were plentiful at his home on Church Street, Golconda, yesterday as everyone described him as humble and hardworking. His sister Simone Waldron, 20, said he was home watching television on Wednesday night until he got a phone call.
She said he left home around 10.30 pm, only saying that he was going to meet a girl.
His friend Nicole Charles said she believed he was set up to be robbed and killed by a girl who he recently met. She said the girl liked gold jewellery, adding the Waldron’s gold chain and earrings were stolen from him.
“This had to be a set-up and look at how they killed him. They put him to kneel on the ground and just shoot him in his head. He was a humble fella. If they wanted the gold they could have just taken it. He would not have put up a fight.
“He worked hard for what he wanted and next week when he got paid he was planning to buy a bed and a wardrobe,” Charles said.
PC Seedath of the Southern Homicide Bureau is continuing investigations.