Gunmen looking for son shoot, kill mother in Barataria

GUNMEN shot and killed a Barataria woman on Saturday morning when they broke into her home looking for her son.

Police told Newsday on Saturday morning that the murder is gang-related.

A report said Pamela Joseph, a 48-year-old CEPEP labourer of Ninth Avenue North, Barataria, was found motionless in a bedroom, between a wall on the northern side and a bed, bleeding from gunshot wounds, after residents reported hearing multiple gunshots just after 2.25 am.

A relative of Joseph told police she was asleep when she heard a banging noise coming from the back of the house. When she got up she heard several gunshots.

Joseph and the relative tried to hide in another bedroom but gunmen came in and reportedly started asking, “Where yuh son, where yuh son?”

Joseph's relative told police she put her head between her knees and then heard several gunshots. She raised her head and saw Joseph motionless in the place where she had hidden.

A DMO pronounced her dead and her body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre, St James for an autopsy sometime this week.

Investigators found 21 spent 5.56 shell casings and two spent .9mm shell casings.