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Anisa Mohammed, the mother of Faith, Arianna, Tiffany and Shane Peterkin ages 10 to 19 who were all killed while they slept at their Guanapo home, on Thursday, says she does not know why gunmen targeted her home.
Left with an inconsolable emptiness, she shares the gory details of a mother's worst reality.
She spoke exclusively with our team of reporter Urvashi Tiwari Roopnarine and cameraman Brandon Benoit.
Left with an inconsolable emptiness, she shares the gory details of a mother's worst reality.
She spoke exclusively with our team of reporter Urvashi Tiwari Roopnarine and cameraman Brandon Benoit.
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00:00 Anisa Mohammed, the mother of Faith, Ariana, Tiffany and Shane Petergan, ages 10 to 19,
00:13 who were all killed while they slept at their Guanapo home on Thursday, says she does not
00:17 know why gunmen targeted her home.
00:20 Left with an inconsolable emptiness, she shares the gory details of her mother's worst reality.
00:27 She spoke exclusively with our team of reporter Iveshi Tiwari Rupnirain and cameraman Brandon
00:32 Benoit.
00:33 It's a mother's worst nightmare.
00:36 Anisa Mohammed was awakened by gunshots.
00:39 While I was on the ground, my big daughter came and she said, "Mommy, they shoot me."
00:46 I said, "What?"
00:47 I said, "We're talking about your daughter."
00:48 She said, "She shot her back."
00:49 She had a bullet in her back.
00:57 The first room I went in was my son's room.
01:01 My son was on his back with a hole in his chest.
01:05 I just ran outside.
01:06 I could not do nothing.
01:07 I could not see no more.
01:10 It is bordering insanity for Anisa to remain in what has now become a house of horror,
01:17 creating reminders of the life she lived just 48 hours ago.
01:21 My son was already dead.
01:24 When I watched him mature, I put him in the girl's room and I just ran outside.
01:28 I wasn't seeing nobody moving.
01:30 She was the only one.
01:33 And the only reason they didn't kill Sineka was because the gun jammed.
01:37 I realized it's dead.
01:39 So I ran out.
01:41 As if the reality of blood, gunshots and bodies were not enough, she relives her children's
01:47 final moments from her niece's recount.
01:50 She was wounded in the ordeal.
01:52 Somebody else said, "When they come in the room, they shoot Iris and she in boots."
02:01 When they come in the room, they shoot Ariana.
02:07 And she tell Ariana, "Ariana, don't move.
02:09 Don't move.
02:10 Don't move.
02:11 Don't move."
02:12 I was in my hotel in Harry and the gunman hear she and shoot she.
02:16 And when they shoot it, like I don't know if it was in her belly first or where they
02:22 shoot she, she get up and start to look around and they shoot she again.
02:26 And when Ariana moved, I realized Ariana was still alive and they just started emptying
02:31 the gun on Ari.
02:32 My children don't do nothing.
02:33 My children don't do nothing.
02:34 Ariana and Sid going to school and Samaya.
02:35 We are animals, my in-laws.
02:42 Her eldest daughter, Shamika, who is at hospital awaiting surgery, her common-law husband and
02:48 two children slept in the living room.
02:51 When they went to my daughter room, my big daughter room and started to shoot, my daughter,
02:56 my son-in-law, they even hug up the two babies.
02:59 Right?
03:00 And when they hug up the babies, my daughter end up getting shoot like she get shoot and
03:05 she arm and come to she breast and she get shoot and she back my son-in-law, one of the
03:10 biggest shoot, she want to shoot one of his foot and the next one they get shoot too.
03:14 Anissa says she loves all her children, but her eyeball, she admits, was her only son,
03:20 Shane.
03:21 Shane out of school because when COVID hit, I was trying to get in contact with the teachers
03:26 and they keep telling me they'll call me, they'll call me, they'll call me, they never
03:29 call me.
03:30 I tell them, I say, you know what, here we'll do, we'll just pay a $2 trade because it's
03:34 on 17 and it's 30th hour last month, so 17, Monday or Tuesday is supposed to be license.
03:41 They spend the last moments of happiness laughing and talking over a meal of sadder roti and
03:47 fried sausages.
03:48 These are rich, high ranks in free fire and then sell their phones.
03:53 My child never was a no, back and a lot, nobody, my son never, nobody, no gun but my son never
03:58 do nothing like that.
03:59 So I see now these people on social media saying my child, my son, my child, you could
04:07 go and ask anybody about my child.
04:09 I don't go my child up.
04:10 So I do it all, me and the father do it all to make sure I'm happy.
04:14 You understand?
04:15 Next month, the next month, it's going to be 12 years.
04:20 Anissa tells us the gunman would have thought they killed everybody, but they didn't know
04:25 that she and her husband, Sean, were asleep in another room at the back of their house.
04:30 Sean say when he hear the gunshots here and he try not to make a noise while they're shooting them and all.
04:39 Today, Anissa nurses the wound of awaking as a mother of one and not five.
04:46 A big one.
04:48 She have two kids, right?
04:52 She like to cook and do here and all that thing, right?
04:57 What's happened with Stephanie?
05:00 She don't like to do nothing.
05:01 She just want to sit around and be on her phone all day.
05:04 She like to be on TikTok, Facebook, them cannot think that what she doing.
05:09 Yeah, Stephanie come and do this, Stephanie likes Stephanie long and out.
05:13 She model long, long, long.
05:14 She want to do nothing.
05:15 You understand?
05:18 Ariana, well, Ariana is my attitude.
05:21 People always give me attitude and they said I might win.
05:25 She really resemble me.
05:26 She's everything like me when I was great.
05:29 And they were my children for me for nothing.
05:32 Life will never be the same.
05:34 I can't even eat.
05:36 That's everything I pick up the one feet around.
05:38 She asked him to pay to understand when I pick up things to eat.
05:41 So that's my need to know.
05:43 I need not nothing.
05:45 I can't eat nothing.
05:47 I can't eat nothing.
05:51 Every time I go to eat, I see my child.
05:53 Oh, I go and get up every day.
05:56 Knowing my child not here.
05:59 If you go in my house now,
06:02 Katie had the cold, so she didn't go to school three weeks.
06:06 Katie washed her uniform and put on two hangers and put on the journey.
06:11 My child thinks still there.
06:15 Not all of my child should.
06:18 Living in a marginalized area,
06:20 her children may have known too well a life of doing without.
06:25 Yet Anissa speaks with pride about the sacrifices made for her five children.
06:30 I never study here, shoes, nails.
06:33 As we get money, groceries.
06:35 With children for school.
06:37 We have our bills how to get paid.
06:39 You understand?
06:40 That is what we do.
06:42 So when something like this happen now,
06:47 I ask myself why because we do it in nobody way.
06:52 Her children, she says, were unblemished and innocent.
06:56 Minors in the eyes of the law.
06:59 Take my child in life.
07:01 My child is dead, sleeping inside the house.
07:03 They're supposed to be safe.
07:05 You understand?
07:07 I couldn't even help them before.
07:09 I couldn't even help them.
07:10 I'm just coming on to everyone.
07:12 Anissa says with more guns seemingly outside the police force than inside,
07:17 and a recent flurry of letters of condolences,
07:21 a reference by the prime minister,
07:23 and statement by the opposition leader,
07:26 mean nothing.
07:27 That don't mean nothing to me because no matter how much they do,
07:31 how much they say, how much they try to do,
07:34 they can't bring back my child.
07:36 I work, I sacrifice for my child.
07:38 There is no answer and there will never be any justice.
07:43 Anissa says there is nothing to live for anymore.
07:47 If the police hold them and kill them,
07:50 whoever go on with them,
07:52 that still can't bring back my children.
07:55 You understand?
07:56 I will always be the one to lose.
08:01 Them come in my house and kill my children like criminals.
08:04 Like if my children is criminals, you know?
08:06 Like if my children doing people's real thing,
08:08 where my children is?
08:09 Why 11 years old?
08:12 Or 14 years old?
08:14 She tells us people have been telling her that her husband was the main target,
08:19 and they have received threats via telephone.
08:22 She tells us she does not know why her husband,
08:25 a swim call worker at the Guernapo landfill,
08:28 is being targeted.
08:29 People telling me do not let Sean come to work
08:32 because they're waiting to kill him because he was the main target.
08:35 Why to sell your target and Sean did nothing?
08:39 If people say they have a little problem,
08:41 they come and pay something.
08:43 Being honest, you understand that's the only problem somebody could have.
08:47 And that's still looking nobody's right, even self-effaced that.
08:50 That's still looking nobody's right to come and kill all my children and the sleepers.
08:53 I don't know why they do that.
08:55 I don't know why they do it.
08:57 If I know why they do it, I'd say why they do it
09:00 because I don't want nothing else to lose.
09:02 As for the allegations on social media suggesting that his son
09:06 and son's-in-law were involved in violent robberies,
09:09 Anissa says they are all false.
09:12 People say no, I cannot think people say in the media.
09:16 But my child, my son, or my son-in-law,
09:21 I let him work security, right?
09:24 That's all he take care of his kids.
09:26 Kristen, poor kid, they're not checking that poor.
09:29 When my son get in a gun, my son begging me to buy a gaming piece,
09:34 tell him son, I go see that, that is my duck selling.
09:38 I say, Shane, you get sale for the duck now,
09:41 because I do have about 2800 right now.
09:43 I say, get sale for the duck, sell all the duck,
09:47 I'm not letting you see much money, you get?
09:49 And if I don't get enough, I'll make up the rest for you and your father, I get paid.
09:53 Although she says she is still to come to terms with their passing,
09:57 she will be doing a joint funeral for all her four fallen children.
10:02 I don't think they're going to let me go.
10:06 I can't live without my children again.
10:10 I just can't.
10:12 Arvishi Tamari, Rub Narain, TV6 News.
10:15 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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