Trinidad lumberer, friend found murdered in Cumuto
(Trinidad Guardian) A lumberer by trade, Bryan Felix, 40, was asked by his neighbour Aleem Khan, 50, on Friday to help cut down some logs and build up a wooden structure on a parcel of land in Cumuto.
The pair, who both lived off the Cumuto Main Road in Coryal Village, returned home on Friday evening, having completed some work.
On Saturday, they went back out with the same intentions.
However, they never returned home.
Villagers from their community conducted searches to find the two men— Khan a father of two, and Felix a father of one.
But their search ended in tragedy yesterday morning when the bodies of the two men were both found near where they were last seen.
Police told the Guardian Media that at 7 am yesterday, Sgt Williams and a party of officers from the Cumuto Police Station received information that two bodies were found at Sin Verguenza Road, Coryal Village.
The officers went to a bushy area approximately a quarter mile off the northern side of the roadway where they observed two male bodies lying in the bushes with what appeared to be gunshot wounds to their heads.
The wounds appeared to have been made by a shotgun.
The bodies were viewed by a district medical officer and ordered removed from the scene at about 1.15 pm.
An autopsy is expected to be performed today at the Forensic Science Center to confirm what caused their deaths.
When the Guardian visited Coryal Village, yesterday, relatives and friends of the two men had gathered in their numbers to pay their final respects.
The overarching consensus at the two wakes, was shock.
No one understood why this had happened.