‘Sugar Daddy’ shot and killed in Claxton Bay

Dead is Diego “Sugar Daddy” Forde who only on Wednesday last turned 40. Forde, also called Blowgo and Sook, lived at Lodge Road, Claxton Bay - meters away from where the shooting occurred.

He was a scrap iron dealer.

Police reports state that shortly after 9 pm on Saturday, Forde and a group of men were liming in front the parlour where gunmen emerged from a nearby bushy area and fired several shots at them.

The men scampered for safety however Forde, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds, collapsed and fell to the ground where he died. The gunmen fled the scene in the nearby bushes.

Police confirmed that one of the wounded men, identified as “Scratchie” remained at the San Fernando General Hospital up to yesterday.

Officers from both the Couva Police Station and Homicide Bureau Region III visited the scene.

Speaking to Newsday yesterday, Forde’s sister Dawn said that it was normal for him to go and lime by the parlour with other residents.

Dawn, who sells food at the roadside, said her brother last spoke to her at about 6 pm on Saturday.

“He bought food from me before I went out the road to sell.

My brother is a quiet, easy-going man who was always hustling. I got the news sometime after 9 pm that he was killed in a shooting. I don’t know what happened, I was not there,” Dawn said.

Forde’s father Glen, 70, noted that although the fatal shooting occurred a short distance away, he was yet to visit the scene.

“Since it happened, I haven’t left home yet.

This crime rate is escalating too much,” said the elderly man.