Trini shot dead in Brooklyn

A TRINIDADIAN was gunned down outside his Brooklyn apartment building in New York on Thursday morning. Eugin Libert, 38, a father of three, was the victim of a slaying which stunned his family and stumped cops. “Everybody is saying this is not the kind of guy you would expect this to happen to,” a police investigator stated.

Relatives said Libert, who owned a welding company, had no known enemies. Police said there was no evidence he was the target of a robbery. Libert kissed his wife goodbye, and headed off to work at seven o’clock on Thursday morning. He walked to his white Ford Expedition, parked in a neighbour’s driveway, and then shots rang out, said his wife, Meaza Amoroso. “I heard four shots,” said Amoroso, who looked out the window of their second-floor apartment on Hawthorne Street in Flatbush and saw her husband bent over in agony. “I heard him crying out, ‘Oh gosh! Oh gosh!’” Amoroso dialled 911, and as she ran to her husband’s side, she saw a man, possibly the killer, running towards nearby New York Avenue. Cops said he may have gotten into a black sedan.

When she reached her husband’s side, he was gasping for breath and could not speak. “He was just lying there in a pool of blood,” Amoroso said. Libert, who was shot four times in the chest, was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7.30 am. Amoroso said she had to break the sad news to their children Lee-Sean, seven, and Sydni, five. Little Tyrese turned one on Tuesday. “He loved his kids,” said Amoroso. “I don’t know how they will make out without him. He was everything to them and they were everything to him.” The victim’s 74-year-old father, Fortier, had just arrived from Trinidad for a visit. Libert, who emigrated from Trinidad in 1998 with his wife of 16 years, had planned to take the family on a trip to Atlantic City yesterday. He also was looking forward to throwing a birthday party today for Tyrese, said his wife.