Crime doesn’t pay

“Crime doesn’t pay,” said Derrick Aberdeen whose son Keston Aberdeen was killed along with Ken Ramlal.

“I just have to say to the youths out there, refrain from crime.” Derrick Aberdeen said yesterday he has no idea what his son was doing in Laventille. He (Keston) and Ramlal are said to be from La Brea.

At the Forensics Science Centre in St James, the grieving father told Newsday that his son had two matters before the court, one for car theft and another for robbery. He said he never confronted Keston about claims that he was involved in illegal activities.

“What he was doing was his business. I heard about those things but I never saw it and I never asked him about it. I don’t even want to know who killed my son, I just want to know what he was doing all the way up in Port of Spain.” He said he does not believe anything will come out of the investigation into his son’s killing.

Ramlal’s relatives said they just wanted to mourn in peace.

“I don’t have much to say on the matter,” said one relative.

“All I can say is that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The family is in a mess over this. We are in total shock.” Police have not yet been able to ascertain a motive for the killings.

It was shortly before 5.30 pm when residents of St Rose and Belgrade streets heard gunshots.

When they checked, they found Aberdeen and Ramlal dead in a blue Mazda 323 car.