Belmont mother remains stable in ICU after attack

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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An­to­nia Cain-Kafi, the moth­er of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi, who was killed af­ter gun­men opened fire on the car he his par­ents were trav­el­ling in last week in Bel­mont, has shown slight im­prove­ment in her con­di­tion.

She was re­port­ed to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion yes­ter­day, al­though she re­mains ward­ed in the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH).

Cain-Kafi, 36, of Ser­raneau Road, Bel­mont, was shot mul­ti­ple times on May 6, along with her son, hus­band Aquil Kafi and fam­i­ly friend An­tho­ny Wil­son.

The mass shoot­ing along Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont, rocked both the com­mu­ni­ty and the coun­try, with cit­i­zens con­tin­u­ing to de­mand an­swers from the au­thor­i­ties on how they in­tend to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion and es­ca­lat­ing mur­der rate.

Cain-Kafi had pre­vi­ous­ly been list­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

No one has yet been held in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro on Sat­ur­day as­sured that all leads were be­ing pur­sued, but de­clined to pro­vide fur­ther de­tails as the in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­mains on­go­ing.