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Mother loses third child to gun violence
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago /Crime & Justice

Mother loses third child to gun violence

From Trinidad Express · () English

Translated from English, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • Marlon Williams was chased and fatally shot in Pleasantville, becoming the third child Patricia Williams has lost to gun violence.
  • The 73-year-old mother, a stroke victim, described the pervasive gun violence as making the area "sick."
  • Williams, a father of 14-year-old twins, was on his way to celebrate Father's Day when he was killed, with his death pushing the national murder toll to 183.

Patricia Williams has lost her third child to gun violence after her son, Marlon Williams, was chased and shot dead behind a house in Pleasantville on Saturday. The 73-year-old stroke victim, speaking from her home, cried out, "(There’s) too much gun violence. The place sick."

Marlon Williams, a maintenance worker for the San Fernando City Corporation, was with a neighbor outside his home when a gunman reportedly emerged from a white Toyota Aqua. Patricia Williams recounted hearing gunshots and seeing two masked men enter the yard, chasing her son down a back track. He was found on Cedar Drive with a broken leg and a gunshot wound to the head, dying at the scene.

(There’s) too much gun violence. The place sick.

— Patricia WilliamsPatricia Williams describing the impact of gun violence in her community after her son's death.

His mother described Marlon as her daily help, especially after her stroke. He was the father of 14-year-old twins and had planned to spend Father's Day with them. His partner of five years, Faith Chewitt, said they had planned a beach trip. His short-term goals included repairing his vehicle.

Patricia Williams's tragedy extends beyond Marlon; her daughter, Alicia Kizzy McKenzie, was found with gunshot wounds in 2009 while she was a state witness in a murder case. Thirty years ago, her son, Avalon McKenzie, was also shot dead. The killing of Marlon Williams, along with another fatal shooting in Maracas, St. Joseph, pushed the national murder toll to 183.

It is too much.

— Patricia WilliamsPatricia Williams expressing her despair over the level of crime.
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Originally published by Trinidad Express in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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