Morvant man latest murder

Jensen Le Vende

A 22-year-old Mor­vant man who had re­cent­ly signed up to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment was shot dead this morn­ing at the Unipet Gas Sta­tion at the cor­ner of Mor­vant Old Road and the East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Khalil Ma­lik Em­manuel Williams, of Chi­napoo, Mor­vant.

Rel­a­tives de­scribed Williams as a young and am­bi­tious man who had been look­ing for­ward to a new chap­ter in his life. They said he grad­u­at­ed from Mor­vant/Laven­tille Sec­ondary School with five CSEC pass­es and had been work­ing while pur­su­ing his goals.

Ac­cord­ing to fam­i­ly mem­bers, Williams had signed up to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment on Thurs­day, just two days be­fore he was killed.

His rel­a­tives in­sist­ed he was not in­volved in gang ac­tiv­i­ty and said he was fo­cused on build­ing a bet­ter fu­ture. They de­scribed him as some­one who loved mo­tor­cy­cles and was de­ter­mined to make a pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tion to so­ci­ety.

The tragedy comes just two months af­ter the death of his fa­ther, Rod­ney Williams. Rel­a­tives said Rod­ney had worked hard through­out his son’s life to keep him away from crime and pro­vide him with op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killing. No mo­tive has yet been es­tab­lished, and no ar­rests have been re­port­ed.