The pregnant girlfriend of Akido Williams had to be rushed to hospital and treated for shock after she witnessed her boyfriend's murder.
By Darryl HeeralalWilliams, 31, was one of three people murdered in under eight hours within a half-mile radius in Diego Martin between Saturday night and yesterday morning.
The woman, who is seven months pregnant, was stabilised at hospital and was said to be resting comfortably yesterday.
Williams, employed with the Ministry of Agriculture's Forestry Division was the first of the three to be shot dead.
Around 11 p.m. on Saturday, Williams was seated in a car parked in front of his girlfriend's house on Covigne Road when another car with three occupants pulled alongside.
One of the men opened fire on Williams, shooting him several times, after which the car drove off.
Civilians took Williams to the Seventh Day Adventist Community Hospital in Cocorite where they were told that he had to be treated at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
Williams died before reaching the General Hospital.
"I don't know how to feel," his mother said yesterday. "I just join how many mothers who have lost their child this way."
Williams lived at Carey Street, one block away from his girlfriend.
Later, around 1 a.m., Trevlin Francois, 23, was shot dead in his bedroom at Bridge Road, off Water Wheel Road, Blue Basin.
The killers kicked down the front door of the house and shot Francois on his bed.
He was a watchman with the CEPEP programme.
A relative said yesterday that Francois was "trying to change his life but there are certain things you can't get away from".
The relative said the family wanted justice.
"This is a child which I mind from birth, till he reach whatever age and somebody take him just like that," the relative said.
The third man to be murdered was Dane Anderson McNeil, shot dead a few metres from his home at Blue Basin Drive, shortly after 6 a.m. yesterday.
McNeil, a PH driver, was on his way to a friend's house where he was going to wash his clothes when he was shot dead.
Relatives said they heard the gunshots and when they looked outside they saw McNeil lying dead across a drain.
The killer had already fled the scene.
The three killings have pushed the homicide toll to 42 compared to 26 for the same period last year.
The difference of 16 deaths represents a 61.5 per cent increase in the murder toll.
The Homicide Bureau and West End police are continuing investigations in all three murders.
