Wife: Cops killed ‘Goat’ in cold blood

THE WIFE of 34-year-old Miguel ‘Goat’ Williams, who according to police reports, was killed in a shootout with police on Friday, is calling for an investigation into his death. Wendy Ann Gomes, 31, the mother of seven of Williams’ eight children, disputed reports that her husband shot at police, but believes he was killed in cold blood. Describing her husband as a good father to his children, Gomes cried: “They take the bread out of my children’s mouth.” Gomes, who is unemployed, said that she now has to care for her seven children, the youngest of whom is six months old, and the oldest 15 years. The woman said the person who spent the last moments with Williams, the driver of the car in which he (Williams) was a passenger, spoke to her about the confrontation with the police when her husband met his death.

Gomes told Sunday Newsday that the driver, whom she knows only as “Kirk”, told her that on Friday while he and Williams were driving along Main Road in Macaulay, Claxton Bay, they were suddenly confronted by a party of mobile police. According to Kirk, Gomes said, the policemen blocked both sides of the roadway with their vehicles, and Williams panicked. The driver told the slain man’s wife that Williams opened the front passenger door of the car and attempted to escape by running off into the cane fields. One of the policemen, Kirk told Gomes, approached their vehicle and instructed him (Kirk) to drive off, and as he obliged the order Kirk said he heard gun shots ring out behind him. Gomes said when the news of the shooting reached her she was still hoping that her husband was alive.

Her hopes were shattered when she viewed his body at the San Fernando mortuary and saw eight gunshot wounds about his neck, chest and upper body. Gomes, who has his full name tattooed on her left arm, described Williams as a family man. The grieving wife said: “The first thing he thought about was his children. Whatever I went through I went through with him.” While admitting that her husband “was not saint” she was quick to add that after his release from Remand Yard in March he tried to turn his life around and had returned to his career as a pipe-fitter. Now the 31-year-old mother of seven fears that her family is on the breadline. She is pleading with the Prime Minister, National Security Mi-nister and Commiss-ioner of Police to help her get  answers to the many questions which the violent death of her husband has left her asking.