Dock worker killed in Morvant

A dock worker and father was shot and killed on Sunday night in Never Dirty, Morvant.

He has been identified as 34-year-old Keston Mayers, from the same area.

According to police, gunshots were heard in Never Dirty around 10.30 pm on Sunday night, but residents in the area paid no mind. Early yesterday morning, passers-by found his body in the road.

Mayers’ father, who did not want to be named, said he worked on the Port of Port of Spain as a dock loader. He spoke to reporters yesterday while awaiting the results of an autopsy at the Forensic Science Centre (FSC) in St James. The father added that Mayers was the father of a young boy, who lives in Nelson street.

Relatives of Brent Richardson, a 42-year-old labourer who died on Sunday morning when he was shot in the head while liming at a Princes Town bar, were also at the FSC, awaiting the results of an autopsy.

His sister, Tessa Richardson, told newsday reporters that he was a loving person, but followed the wrong crowd. She said relatives tried time and again to warn him about the friends he kept, but he would not listen.

“Most times he would be home but sometimes he would go out, and when he did, that was when he would be with the wrong company,” she said. “I did not know him to be a menace, to say he was doing something wrong, but we knew that he was with the wrong company.”

Homicide investigators have not yet established a motive for either murder, as investigations continue.

The murder toll for the year stands at 57.