Sister of murdered market vendor: 'We are living in fear'

The sister of a Tunapuna market vendor who was shot dead says she is fearful about life in TT, as the crime situation is out of control.

Keron Charles, 43, was murdered on Monday night in his car by a lone gunman.

Police said around 9.10 pm on July 22, they found Charles in his car on Picton Street, Tunapuna with multiple gunshot wounds.

They took him to the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex.

He was in critical condition and died at 8.30 the next morning.

Police said Charles was with a woman in his car when a gunman approached and shot at him.

They do not have a motive for his murder.

Speaking at the Forensic Science Centre, St James on Thursday, his sister, who did not want to be named, said the state of crime is terrible.

"Is a shooting every day.

"It makes you fearful to even walk the road or even to have your own property, you have to be worried all the time."

She said she was tired of waking up and seeing another murder.

She described her brother as a hard-working man who provided for his two children.

"He worked every day, he don't play.

"He loved his two children – a girl, 14, and boy, 12."

Charles, from Rousillac, La Brea was a market vendor in the Tunapuna market.

His sister laughed as she recalled some of her best memories with Charles – from selling in the market.

"He was the loudest in the market and everyone knows him,"

She said, "He would say 'I trying to attract all the customers.'"

When Newsday asked when she last spoke to Charles her tone changed. She said because of the hectic nature of life she did not remember when that was.

She said in stopping crime needs to start at home.

"It starts with us.

"As an individual, if you know someone doing wrong, do not encourage it."