Family haunted by seeing gun pointed at kidnapped student

A photograph of a gun pointed to the head of 17-year-old Moruga boy Kenrick Joseph Morgan, which was sent to his family by kidnappers via WhatsApp, continues to haunt his family. It is the last piece of evidence relatives saw five days ago to suggest that he was still alive.

The family was given one week to pay a ransom of US$40,000 or the form five student of the Moruga Secondary School and his cousin Kendell Singh, 24, would be killed.

The two were allegedly taken by Spanish-speaking men while they were fishing at Gran Chemin beach in Moruga on Saturday evening. Shortly after, a photograph showing Morgan and Singh sitting on the ground with a gun pointed to their head, was sent to a relative and the ransom demanded in a phone call. When the family saw the photograph they burst into tears.

The photograph is in the hands of investigators. Up to yesterday, Moruga police and Coast Guard officers were searching the sea.

“We are not doing well at all,” said Morgan’s sister Ashley Boodoo yesterday. “We are all hurting. We just want my brother back home.”

Boodoo said all the family can do now is pray.

“We have gone out to sea and searched the waters and nothing. We can’t do nothing else. Please send my little brother home. He is just a child.”

Up to late yesterday investigators said they were still trying to find out where the call originated.