Woman shot dead in front of son, two others injured

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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The woman who was mur­dered on Fri­day night at Bal­moral Park, Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas, was re­port­ed­ly lured to the home of her boyfriend af­ter re­ceiv­ing a call that he had been shot.

As Shan­ice Mor­ris, 32, ar­rived at Vic­to­ria Dri­ve West, ex­it­ed her ve­hi­cle and walked up the dri­ve­way where her boyfriend was seat­ed with a friend in the open garage, the masked gun­man opened fire on the group.

Po­lice said Mor­ris, a Cus­tomer Ser­vice Rep­re­sen­ta­tive with Pro­gres­sive Cred­it Union, died at the scene.

Her 34-year-old boyfriend was shot in the waist and left eye­brow, while a 36-year-old Lance Cor­po­ral of Fyz­abad was shot in the low­er back.

The in­ci­dent took place in front of Mor­ris’s young son, who had been seat­ed in her ve­hi­cle.

The T&T De­fence Force (TTDF sol­dier was tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty for treat­ment.

He was lat­er trans­ferred to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he re­mained up to yes­ter­day.

Mor­ris’s boyfriend, who is a busi­ness­man, re­fused to leave her.

Po­lice said Mor­ris, who lived at Al­mond Street, Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas, was at the Ed­in­burgh 500 Recre­ation Ground around 7.20 pm, prepar­ing for the night­ly com­mu­ni­ty foot­ball league when she re­ceived the call and rushed off.

It was claimed that a sil­ver Nis­san Syl­phy turned on­to the street be­hind Mor­ris, fol­low­ing which the gun­man came out and shot at the group be­fore get­ting back in­to the wait­ing car, which sped off.

Fri­day’s shoot­ing came one month af­ter Mor­ris’ broth­er-in-law was killed while re­turn­ing home from the night­ly foot­ball.

Je­lani Williams, 30, a pri­vate with the T&T Reg­i­ment (TTR), was about to en­ter his Nis­san X-Trail out­side a shop at La Clave Road, Ed­in­burgh 500, around 9.30 pm on March 16, when an­oth­er ve­hi­cle drove along­side his.

Williams was shot sev­er­al times be­fore that car sped off.

Mor­ris was part of the E500 Sports and Arts So­ci­ety, which is in charge of the E500 Lega­cy Mas­ters Foot­ball League cur­rent­ly un­der­way.

While res­i­dents re­fused to speak with re­porters, they ad­mit­ted the events with­in the last month had left them shak­en.

One man de­scribed the neigh­bour­hood as “qui­et” and said many of them now had “con­cerns” re­gard­ing the con­tin­ued safe­ty of the area.

A young man walk­ing out of the street de­scribed the oc­cu­pants as “re­spect­ful, hum­ble men.”

He said that while the broth­ers most­ly kept to them­selves, they would usu­al­ly ex­change pleas­antries with oth­ers along the street and it was a sur­pris­ing and wor­ry­ing de­vel­op­ment.

Res­i­dents at the Ed­in­burgh Recre­ation Ground who spoke with Sun­day Guardian were con­cerned that the killer might have been min­gling with them at the pop­u­lar spot pri­or to Mor­ris re­ceiv­ing the al­leged dis­tress call.

Un­will­ing to have his name pub­lished, one man said, “Out­side of that, here re­al cool.”