The playground has become a battlefield

“It is like it says in that song, the playground has become a battlefield. All of us grew up as friends, playing together. Now your friend is the one who is killing you.” said a relative yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre in St James.

Relatives believe that he was murdered in retaliation to the shooting which occurred on Sunday afternoon. Two men were wounded in that incident, and they were treated and later released.

Trimmingham, 35, was murdered on Upper Hillcrest Avenue at about 7 pm.

Residents discovered his bullet- riddled body at the side of the road after a volley of gunshots were heard. Police officers at first thought the body was that of murder accused Marlon Trimmingham, however relatives yesterday confirmed that it was his brother.

Newsday understands that today they will be attempting to request that his second brother, Earl Trimmingham, who has also been accused of murder, be released from prison to take part in Sheldon’s funeral service. The date of the service has not yet been announced. Family members, while admitting to Trimmingham’s chekered past, said he changed his life for the better two years ago, and he did not deserve his death. Trimmingham is the father of four. The youngest of the four is only two months old.

“I’m not gonna say that he was as saint. He had a past.” said relatives, “But as far as we know that last time he was involved in anything was two years ago. They took this man from his children.

He didn’t deserve that.” An autopsy performed at Forensics confirmed that he died from multiple gunshot wounds