‘Bolo’ shot dead

A  LAVENTILLE mother of four, held her head and screamed in anguish yesterday, after her 23-year-old son was found shot to death inside a house in Powder Magazine, Cocorite yesterday.

“Oh God, oh God, look how they kill my son,” cried Elsie Moses as she watched undertakers remove the body of Akido “Bolo” Moses, 23, who was found shot to death inside a house at Phase One, Powder Magazine. Moses had to be restrained by her common-law husband Stanford Thomas as she tried to run towards the undertakers who were removing her son’s body. Police sources told Newsday the facts surrounding Moses’ death were still a bit sketchy up to late yesterday. Sources said that for the time being, his death will be deemed a murder until further investigations proved otherwise.

Two men, both in their early twenties, were up to late yesterday assisting police in the investigations. Preliminary information, investigators received, was that around midday Moses and three friends, were examining a revolver in one of the rooms of the house, where Moses recently moved in. One of the friends, it is reported, pointed the gun at Moses’ head and fired a shot, killing Moses instantly. The men fled the scene. Up to late yesterday, two men were in police custody, and a revolver seized. Moses was one of two men murdered within a 12-hour period yesterday. In the other murder, just after midnight, welder Sherwin Alfred Medina, 21, of Dibe was shot in the right side of his head in Belmont.

While not yet establishing a motive for Medina’s murder, police sources said the killing appeared to have been either drug or gang-related. Visiting the scene of the Moses killing yesterday were Supt Nadir Mohammed, ASP Nadir Khan (Homicide), Insp Narciss Cadette, Sgt Nandram Monilal,  (Homicide Bureau), Cpl Hayden Hannays, Cpl Bhagi Dass. DMO Dr Kenneth Chai Hong viewed the body and ordered it removed to the Port-of-Spain Mortuary. An autopsy will be carried out at the Forensic Sciences Centre today.  Moses recently left his mother’s Eastern Quarry, Laventille home after getting permission from a family friend to stay at the house in Powder Magazine. Detective Sgt Nandram Monilal of St James CID is continuing investigations.