My children need help

In the case of three men shot dead in a bar in Debe, near Penal on Thursday night, Deputy Commissioner of Police Wayne Dick in a radio report yesterday said quite a bit of evidence has been gathered in a bid to solve those murders.

The dead men are Terry Edwards, Sanjay Mahabir, both of Debe, and Kevin Fuller of Palmyra.

Sunday Newsday learned yesterday that Edwards’ children, Isaiah, 11, and Kerry, 14, continue to ask for their father. Their mother Ann Marie Khadoo said the children need more than her words of comfort to heal.

“It is hard enough for me to know that he is gone and will never return but they are just kids. This is so hard for them to accept. I keep telling them to be strong and daddy would want to see them happy, but they need someone to sit down and talk with them; someone to counsel them,” she said.

Edwards, Fuller and Mahabir were killed by gunmen while liming at Runway 69 Shorts bar. Reports said Edwards, who attempted to flee, was shot and collapsed on the roadway where he died. Mahabir was outside the bar speaking to his wife on his cellular phone when on hearing the gunshots, he tried to reach his car, but was shot and collapsed.

The killers escaped in a vehicle which was parked on another street. Nineteen bullet casings were retrieved at the scene.

Khadoo said yesterday she and Edwards shared a relationship for 17 years.

“Together we had these beautiful children which was his world.

“He was one of the best fathers you would come across. The bond he shared with his children was unbreakable and now he was taken away from us, an innocent man,” she cried.

Kerry was inconsolable at the crime scene as she sat on the road near her father’s body.

“My heart breaks, I know their father was a good man,” Khadoo said.

Edwards lived in Wellington Gardens while Mahabir, an offshore worker, lived at Serenity Heights.

Mahabir’s parents Harripersad Mahabir, 77, and Jean Mahabir, 74, have said they hoped his death was a dream.

Fuller’s mother, Joanne, and relatives also remain in a state of shock.

Up to late yesterday funeral arrangements were being finalised for the men.

Investigators have since obtained video footage from two surveillance cameras at the bar and senior police officers yesterday said they are working on certain leads.

Within the last eight days there have been reports of eight murders in south Trinidad.

The victims include: * Piparo grandmother Dorothy Hosein, 65, who was beaten to death and dumped in a pond near Brothers Road, Rio Claro; * Nickell “Moose” Gibson who was shot dead while liming in Bay Shore, Marabella; * Businesswoman Sylvestine Bernard, 87, and her daughter Kathy Ann, 38, who were found dead at their Gonzales Street, Siparia home. They were stabbed to death.

* Dave George, 53, whose body was discovered on Penal Rock Road, Penal last Friday with bullet wounds to the head and chest.

No arrests have been made but investigators said several persons were questioned in these cases.