“They killed my grandson in the bushes. It not fair. What is this world coming to?” Melena Rauseo cried as she told relatives in the United States about the murder of her grandson, Kadeem Mark.
Standing in the doorway of her living room, Rauseo said she could not bear to see Mark, 24, lying dead with a single gunshot to his head.
Police said Mark, of Reid Road, Point Fortin, left home around 6 pm Monday to feed his two black pit bulls. The animals were tied in a shed in Mark’s garden at Spring Street, off Warden Road.
It is believed that while standing near the shed a lone gunman went up to Mark and shot him in the head as he attempted to run. Around 8:45 am yesterday, a resident of Spring Street saw Mark’s body and called the police.
He was still wearing his father’s gold chain around his neck, causing police to rule out robbery as a motive.
Officers cordoned off the area and searched for spent shells.
Rauseo said she did not know why anyone wanted her grandson dead.
“Kadeem is such a nice child. I don’t know what going on in Point Fortin now you know. This is so unfair,” Rauseo said, adding that in the days before his death he told his family someone wanted him dead.
“I don’t know who or why but I know he was afraid to go in the garden alone,” she added.
Rauseo said on Monday, Mark told relatives he could not get anybody to go with him to the garden so he was taking a chance to go alone.
“They shoot him and they kill him. I couldn’t stay to look at the body. I could not take it,” Rauseo added.
She said Mark was an only child and his father, Ricardo, had been helping him to plant ochro, peppers, pumpkin and bananas on the land. Ricardo was inconsolable yesterday and had to be taken to the Point Fortin Area Hospital after his blood pressure went up.
Police said Mark knew the man who shot him. Within recent times, outsiders have been occupying squatting lands in the area. A source in the area said: “Strangers come here and they put up houses and squat. All kinds of things going on here. People selling land that is not theirs to sell.”
A number of plyboard shacks were seen in the hillsides at Warden Road which is a link to the Southern Main Road, Cap-de-Ville.
Mark’s body was sent to the Forensic Science Centre, St James, for an autopsy today. Anyone with information can contact CrimeStoppers at 800 TIPS. Homicide officers are continuing investigations.