A gang feud in Caledonia has threatened to wipe out an entire family and relatives of a murdered man are being forced to flee their homes.
By Darryl HeeralalTerror struck as Navada George, 26, was sitting on a bench at the side of Garrick Street in Second Caledonia, Morvant Saturday afternoon.
Around 6.16 p.m. gunmen shot George in the back and when he ran and fell down a few feet away, they finished him with four shots to the chest.
Police believe the murderers were gunning for a relative of George, but killed him when they could not find their intended target.
As George was being taken to hospital his extended family were packing into a maxi-taxi to get out of the gun-crazy village.
They slept by relatives on Saturday night, but left with few choices most of the family returned to Garrick Street yesterday.
"I naturally fed up," a relative of George too afraid to speak on record said.
"The whole family have to move out. Everybody 'fraid to sleep in they own house.
"I 'fraid to sleep in my house because as the police gone the shooting will start back up again."
George is the latest death in a winding story of turf, drug and rank wars in a one block area that has claimed at least six lives in the past two months.
A shooting on Wednesday night, a result of the same thuggery preceded George's murder.
George had just come from visiting a relative at hospital, changed his clothes and went to lime with some friends.
As he lay on the ground bleeding, a relative took his cellphone and called the police.
Police from the North Eastern Division Task Force under Sgt Keith Louison took him to hospital and investigations are continuing under Snr Supt Waldron Bishop.
"People can't take it no more. Children can't go in the shop and you can't stay in your own house because it not safe. It get overbearing."
Police believe a group of men who was recently freed from jail is behind the killings and shootings in the area.
The lawmen feel the men are "fighting a war to regain dominance."
