Shastri Boodan
Residents of Longdenville Road, Chaguanas, are trying to come to terms with a deadly shooting that claimed the lives of two siblings after a masked gunman stormed the house where they lived.
Guardian Media visited the scene today, where relatives said Brian Clarke, 50, and his elder sister Magarita Clarke, 55, were shot and killed by the lone gunman on Thursday night.
Clarke’s 42-year-old nephew, who did not wish to be identified, said the masked man arrived in a car around 8 pm and ran into the building.
He said: “When the guy run in, it had music playing two sides, it had music playing downstairs and on the next side they. I was liming on that next side and when I hear something go Bam Bam ah say let meh stop the music, when I watch up I saw the guy running downstairs, he had the mask on and yuh cyar make him out.”
He said the gunman entered the house and shot Magarita once while she was sitting around a table with other people. The gunman then ran upstairs and shot Brian, who was lying on a couch.
The relative said Brian later fell to the floor, where the gunman fired several more shots at his upper body.
Relatives said they are baffled by the killings and believe Magarita may have been shot after she got up when the gunman entered the building, which houses several families in separate apartments.
They said Brian had no children and worked at a hardware store.
Darius Lopez, Magarita’s 31-year-old son, said his mother was a hard worker employed in the food service industry.
“Last night I come home and see my mother lie down on de ground and I now take out money from the bank to give my mother and I not too please with that. My mother was no bad person at all. It have no reason to kill my mother.”
Police are investigating.
