Murder in Arouca

Residents of Lower Railway Road heard gunshots at about 1 am yesterday.

When they checked, they found Cedeno bleeding on the road.

He was taken to the Arima Health Centre and then to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope where he later died. Police said Ceden was shot in the head and chest.

Relatives yesterday told Newsday that Cedeno was a friendly, outgoing, hard-working person who was always well-dressed, until he fell into drug use.

“He was a real good dresser,” said Cedeno’s sister at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, “He always used to look good. People around him used to get jealous when they saw him dress.” Relatives said Cedeno worked as a warehouse attendant in San Juan.

When he lost his job he wandered the streets. “He used to pick fruits and sell them just to get money to buy his drugs,” said the sister. “After our mother died last year he got off the drugs and was staying with my niece. He was starting to get better.

It was like seeing him the way he was before. But five months later he went back on drugs and went back to the streets”