THE sound of automatic gunfire shattered the night-time silence in Chinapoo, Morvant, when two men were gunned down early on Thursday morning.
Police said residents of Crow Trace in Chinapoo, heard the gunshots at around 2.30 am, and on checking, saw the bodies of 35-year-old Dwayne Danglad aka "Home Alone" and Kody Robles, 30, on the road.
Police from the North Eastern Division Task Force visited the scene with officers from the Morvant CID and the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region II. A district medical officer also visited and signed the order for the bodies to be removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James for autopsies.
This was one of two double murders which occurred within an eight-hour space between Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning.
Up to press time, there have been 65 murders in the 33 days of this year. For the same period last year, 57 people were killed. For this year so far, eight double-murders have been committed.
When Newsday visited Chinapoo on Thursday, crime scene investigators were photographing the area where Danglad and Robles fell.
As police continued their enquiries, parents walked their children to the nearby Chinapoo Government Primary School.
Two tow trucks had to be used to remove two cars which were riddled with bullets by the killers during the attack.
Newsday spoke with Danglad's mother, Ingrid Danglad, at her Wallace Road home which is mere metres away from where her son was killed.
Danglad who is a diabetic, had her left leg amputated last May and uses a wheelchair to get around. She said she was in bed at around 2 am when she heard the gunshots.
She immediately began calling relatives to find out where her son was at the time, only to learn later that he was one of the men killed in the attack.
Danglad said while she remembers her son as a loving man, she admitted he was involved in illegal activities.
"I'm not them mothers who say 'he was a good boy.' I used to talk to my son, but how much you could talk? It's you (the child) who have to listen in the end.
"I used to tell him to watch yourself, watch your back, you know they don't like you. My child was no saint, he was in thing.
"He couldn't work as they always had threats against him, he couldn't work anywhere. I tired try with he and he too tired try."
Danglad said it was not the first time gunmen shot at her son, recalling an incident on Indian Arrival Day in 2013, when they attacked him at the family's home in Morvant. "He had to jump through one of these windows and end up in a canal, where he escaped. His father who lives on the next side, he was shot in his foot.
"Another time he was in a party and came home with his wife's car to collect something, it's a good thing she wasn't there because they shot behind him again. I can't remember the year that happened."
Relatives said Danglad was living in Sea Lots for some time before his murder and was only in the area as he had come to visit family.
Danglad said she was deeply hurt over her son's murder as he would
