A 38-year-old father of three was gunned down outside a bar in Penal on Monday night.
Investigators recovered over 30 ammunition casings at the scene.
Today, relatives told our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh, they don’t know why anyone would have wanted him dead, but called on young people to find a better way to resolve conflicts.
00:00On Monday night, 38-year-old Kyle Belmontes of Smart Avenue, Penal, was liming at a bar along the Penal Rock Road in his community.
00:10Reports state he was last seen alone eating a box of KFC to the front of the bar and minutes later, at 11.55pm, gunshots rang out.
00:20Officers were told shortly after the gunfire, someone who was inside the bar walked out and discovered Belmontes lying motionless with multiple gunshot wounds about his body.
00:32When investigators arrived at the scene just after midnight, they recovered over 20 spent 5.56 ammunition casings and 10 live 9mm rounds.
00:43When we spoke to his cousin in Penal on Tuesday, she described him as someone with great love for family, who would do anything for them, and she was left shaken by his murder.
00:54She says he would sometimes fish and did construction work and never mentioned having enemies or disputes with anyone, but said in his younger days, they did warn him about the company he kept.
01:07He wouldn't tell me. He would quickly talk to my children, probably, but he wouldn't really come and tell me stuff like that.
01:14He doesn't want the bigger sex to know, you know, he doesn't want to protect us or what have you, so he wouldn't tell us.
01:20As a teenager, he had to warn his mother and grandmother had to talk to him, you know, and he was like, sorry, sorry, auntie, of course I'm sorry.
01:29You know, that kind of thing, and then you'll, you know, he was never rude.
01:33He was never rude person, you know, disrespectful, you know.
01:36She believes young people need to learn how to work through their differences and figure out ways to talk through their problems, find someone who can mediate between them and the person they may have a dispute with.
01:49She says people should stop blaming parents, who might be doing the best they can, and instead find ways to mentor, guide and talk to the youth.
01:58If you want somebody to get in an argument, there must be somebody you can reach out to to say, listen, I'm sorry, don't say I'm sorry, don't forgive, not everything has to come to this.
02:11So I think that thing we need to do is to find a way to work with each other between the ages of 5 to 15.
02:17That's the age we need to work with.
02:20If we could fix that, I think we could fix everything, you know.
02:22If we could get to fix that generation, 5 to 15, sort them out, I think we should be able to solve and work on crime.
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