Relatives of a Beetham man who was shot and killed on July 12 want to know why police were never informed of his death.
Dillon James, of 18th Street, Beetham Gardens was shot three times at Evelyn Trace, El Socorro.
Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre in St James on Wednesday, two female relatives of Dillon James, who did not want to be identified, said said they got a call around 8.17 pm on Sunday informing them that James had been shot.
At 11.55 pm that night he died.
They said since Sunday they have been at the hospital and the police station trying to get more information about the murder. The women said when the shooting happened they went to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital but was told that they needed to go to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
When the family members went there they saw James for a brief moment. A few hours later, he died.
The following day the relatives were told the needed to go to the Forensic Science Centre but Dillion’s autopsy could be done because of undone paper work. They were told to return the following day. On Tuesday, the women said a doctor at the hospital claimed he wanted to do the autopsy but again it was postponed.
On Tuesday, when the women went to the Forensic Sciences Centre, no police officer accompanied them and they had to inform officers of the Homicide Bureau Region Two about the killing.
The women said a relative, who is a police officer, informed them that there was no report of a shooting of James. The family said they were puzzled by that because all shootings are reported and all hospitals report to police whenever someone was shot or dies from gunshot injuries.
“No one knows who brought him in the hospital, no police report on the shooting, I find that strange” one of the women said.
The women described James as a “real quiet” person and said he was an air conditioning technician.
James’ killing took the murder toll to 210 for the year according to figures from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations. For the same period last year there were 237 murders.