Double murder in Vega De Oropouche

Asha Samaroo made a grisly discovery yesterday morning when she discovered the bodies of her friend and a man lying in pools of blood, dead from apparent gunshot wounds.

Natalia Marsha Cadogan, 32, was found lying near her front door while a man described as her “good friend” was lying on the bed. He has not yet been identified. but Samaroo said Cadogan would call him “Ray.”

The double murder, which took place in Cadogan’s small home at Toco Main Road, Paramount, Vega De Oropouche, brings the murder toll to 508.

Cadogan moved to the area from Port of Spain about five years ago.

Acting ACP Bernard Etienne of the Eastern Division said neighbours heard what sounded like gunshots around midnight on Sunday, but it was not until yesterday morning, when Samaroo went to check on Cadogan, that she found the bodies.

She said, “Marsha was by me up to last night. She and the guy spend the day by me, they eat lunch, then later Marsha say she feeling to eat fried chicken. I went and buy two packs of chicken and I made it for her. Half past ten last night Marsha eat fried chicken and fried bake.

“Then she said she going home to bathe and she will come back, but I waited about ten minutes and I fall asleep and it wasn’t until this morning when I went there that I see her.” Samaroo said Cadogan, the mother of a 13-year-old girl who lived with her father, was trying to finish her home. Only the foundation was completed. She said Cadogan paid for a load of gravel to be delivered yesterday morning, but it was sent back.

“Marsha now start to catch herself. She was going to finish the house and open a food business in front. I was going to run it for her, because she was supposed to go to the US next year because her father was sending for her.

“That girl was like a daughter to me, she would spend all her time by me. People would see her car park up in front and the house lock up, but she would sleep by me. Oh God, I don’t know why they would do this to Marsha,” Samaroo said, with tears streaming down her face. She said Cadogan had often told her, “If “anything happen to me, you all know who do it.”

She said Cadogan had received several threats from a man with whom she had had a relationship, but had broken it off some time ago.

While Samaroo described Cadogan as a “good person,” other neighbours said she kept mainly to herself and did not take kindly to people passing through her yard.