Drug dealers have killed a 16-year-old Princes Town youth, slicing off two of his fingers and chopping him four times to the back of his head.
BY RADHICA SOOKRAJHe was chopped on the head, neck, back and hands.
Police said they believed drug dealers who knew Rooplal may have killed him after a drug deal went sour.
But Rooplal?s grieving relatives said he was never involved in drugs. They believe he was killed after ?seeing what he was not supposed to see.?
Rooplal, a former student of Pleasantville Senior Comprehensive, had gone to lime with some friends after spending a quiet evening with his two sisters Jenelle, 14, and Giselle, 17, at the Usine Ste Madeleine pond.
Sobbing uncontrollably as she gazed at her brother?s corpse, Jenelle said they went to the pond to fish and had spent hours liming and talking.
?Gerry caught seven fishes and we came home afterwards to clean and cook them. We had a lot of fun and later in the night he tell me he going to meet some of his friends,? she said.
The teenager?s mother Indra, a cleaner employed with Soongs Great Wall Chinese restaurant, was at work.
She said when she got home at around 11.30 pm, she noticed that Rooplal was not in bed.
?He doesn?t stay out all night. He always comes home, so I asked his sister where he was and she said he gone out with friends,? Indra said.
She added that she went to bed and when she got up Rooplal still had not reached home.
?I went to brush my teeth and then the neighbour tell me to come quickly.?
The distraught mother said Rooplal never had any enemies.
?He was known as Guy Smiley because he always smiling...if you cuss him he would still smile,? she cried.
She said she did not know who murdered her son and described him as a loving boy.
She said she was single mother who worked hard to support her children.
Jenelle attends ASJA Girls? College.
Anthony Francis, a resident, said he found the body while walking out of King Street to buy a newspaper.
?The body was stiff and I knew he was dead. We immediately called his mother and the police,? Francis said.
Police headed by Senior Supt Joseph Nathaniel and including acting Sgt Errol Ramdath visited the scene.
There were no arrests up to late yesterday.
Investigations are continuing.
