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Four months after four siblings were killed during a brazen attack at their Guanapo home while they slept, their grieving mother, Anesa Rampersad is still coming to terms with her loss.

Unable to qualify for an HDC house, it's time for her to return to the place where her life changed forever.
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00:00 A brazen attack at their Guanapo home while they slept, their grieving mother,
00:04 Anisa Rampersad, is still coming to terms with her loss. Unable to qualify for an HTC house,
00:10 it's time for her to return to the place where her life changed forever.
00:14 When her children mischievously left imprints of their hands on the wall of their home,
00:21 Anisa Rampersad never knew how desperately she would one day be clinging to mere handprints
00:28 to fill her now empty life.
00:30 That's where I just came from.
00:33 Why?
00:34 I don't know.
00:36 How difficult is it to be here?
00:43 It's difficult but at the end of the day, here is home too.
00:55 It is hard, I mean, it is really hard to come back here.
00:59 It's not like I go somewhere and you don't want to come back, my children here.
01:04 It's not here.
01:06 I feel everywhere I turn, I see my children.
01:10 I just feel a little peaceful when I come here.
01:13 Thanks.
01:14 I just feel a little peaceful when I come here because, you know, here is home.
01:18 Here is where I grew up.
01:21 As much comfort that it brings Anisa to be at the place once called home, bullet holes and blood
01:29 are reminders of how her life changed on September 21st at 12.24am.
01:35 All this blood, all this blood, stutters, you see, that is blood from Ariana Samaya's feet.
01:42 The sound of gunshots pierced through the early morning silence of their La Retreat,
01:48 Guanapo home as gunmen burst through their front door, opening fire,
01:53 first on Anisa's only son, 17-year-old Shane.
02:15 They made their way to a room where the girls, Tiffany, 19, Ariana, 14, and 10-year-old Faith
02:22 slept along with their two cousins Idris and Samaya, who miraculously survived,
02:29 but live each day with bullets still lodged inside them.
02:33 Samaya can't have children, you know.
02:35 Because the shoot she in the bottom and the bullet like it split and damaged her wound.
02:40 So she can't have children.
02:42 Idris, when Idris get shoot, Idris say get up and he try to walk, he realise he get shoot in the foot.
02:47 When he touch his chest, he have a hole.
02:48 Idris take a sheet and wrap it up and stuff that in his chest, you know.
02:53 I don't know how the child think at that time to do that, you know.
02:57 That is what save Idris' life, you know.
02:58 Yes, Idris, pop his sack load down in the hole in his chest.
03:03 I would like when I fix up my place to take them back.
03:05 But I don't know if they will come.
03:09 I wish they come.
03:12 I will see about them.
03:13 So many unanswered questions, like how did TTPS marked bullets kill her four children?
03:20 Why the gunmen only targeted the minors?
03:24 How did she and her husband escape unscathed?
03:28 All the lights in the house was off, you know.
03:30 The only light was on was Shane's ring light.
03:33 He had the ring light on his table where he built up there.
03:35 And that light was on.
03:37 So it's not like he didn't see that it's her little boy.
03:39 All he see here.
03:41 It really are some kind of people, eh?
03:49 But no heart at all.
03:51 Because how they can watch little Shane and kill them?
03:53 Why they didn't come and get up everybody in the house?
03:57 You understand?
03:59 Kill the adult, me and the father, and go all the way.
04:01 If only you want to kill somebody.
04:03 Why would you kill all of them?
04:05 If she didn't have a gun, she would have gone.
04:07 For Anissa, justice remains a fallacy.
04:11 I could never get justice.
04:13 It have no justice.
04:15 What are the fellows that I'm staying in jail?
04:17 If it's the right set of fellows, the whole.
04:19 What are they staying in jail?
04:21 What are the police?
04:23 What are they doing?
04:25 What are they doing in jail?
04:27 What are they come out?
04:29 What are they dead?
04:31 What are they living?
04:33 My children still cannot come back.
04:35 They still cannot come back.
04:37 Nothing can bring back my children.
04:39 The one thing I cannot get back is what they take.
04:41 That's what they've killed me.
04:43 Staying at her relative's home since the murders,
04:45 she finds herself being drawn to La Retreat,
04:47 thinking about what life would have been like.
04:53 Faith went to school because I was sending her.
04:55 She and her mother sent them to do her trade.
04:57 Right?
04:59 He probably might have been doing his trade.
05:01 I went to school with them
05:03 so they could come home and cook.
05:05 They do everything.
05:07 They sit outside in my bedroom.
05:09 Out in front, they sit and lie in the ice
05:11 waiting for them to come from school.
05:13 What Christmas would have been like?
05:15 Faith was dolly. She was slime.
05:17 Faith used to want more things than everybody
05:19 because she was the last one.
05:21 So she was the spoiled one.
05:23 Right?
05:25 But whoever I get, they used to be content.
05:27 If I didn't have plenty of money,
05:29 they used to still be thankful for what I get.
05:31 Sometimes I would give my son money.
05:33 If I gave him money, he would buy what he wanted.
05:35 You understand?
05:37 And most of the time, it's things for him.
05:39 Like buy a car to top up his accounts.
05:41 For this mother, it's a non-stop record
05:43 of the heartless killings of the miners
05:45 while they slept.
05:47 My daughter said, "Mommy, they shoot Shane."
05:49 I said, "Mum, when I run out, I'm watching Shane's room."
05:51 Shane lied. I'm going to get his face and so.
05:53 And he's blood pumping from his chest.
05:55 Blood running down his head.
05:57 [snorts]
05:59 And the child not moving.
06:01 I know if Shane was alive,
06:03 he'd have been in pain.
06:05 So he'd have been bowling or groaning at least.
06:07 My child wasn't moving.
06:09 Ariana,
06:11 when she heard the noise,
06:13 she raised up on the bed.
06:15 So I was like, "Oh, my God."
06:17 She raised up on the bed.
06:19 So that's how she shoot.
06:21 She pressed everything.
06:23 She shoot. She hit it.
06:25 Hit it in her hole.
06:27 Hit it in her hole and she just...
06:29 I just tried to...
06:31 I had her on her phone.
06:33 If I'm not doing nothing, I just play in her game.
06:35 Just to occupy my mind.
06:37 Because you see, when I sit down
06:39 and I'm quiet,
06:41 it is just me playing in her mind,
06:43 playing in her mind.
06:45 Still, Anissa can't part
06:47 with the place where her four children
06:49 were murdered.
06:51 You see when I sit down in here,
06:53 I don't know if I just feel the presence.
06:55 I don't know.
06:57 You understand?
06:59 I could still sit down.
07:01 I could watch Ariana right up there.
07:03 The next time somebody's feet go right up,
07:05 big tough on the 19-year-old, she go right up.
07:07 I don't want to break it down.
07:09 She and her husband
07:11 took several loans
07:13 and joined Soussus to build
07:15 a permanent shelter for the children.
07:17 But the efforts only got so far.
07:19 Afraid to come back
07:21 because I will have one, but
07:23 I don't have a choice.
07:25 The most I could do is try to
07:27 secure the place, the best we could,
07:29 and come back.
07:31 Where we would go?
07:33 Well, I would just kill them
07:35 because I don't have no gun, I don't have no money to
07:37 buy no gun, I don't have nothing like that.
07:39 Remember, we wasn't doing
07:41 nothing wrong.
07:43 We wasn't doing nothing wrong.
07:45 Sometimes this front door here,
07:47 we fall asleep and it's open.
07:49 Everybody fall asleep and it's open.
07:51 The family does not qualify for an HDC house,
07:53 but the Ministry of Social Development
07:55 gave the Peterkins
07:57 a $15,000 grant for a roof.
07:59 It will take much more
08:01 to see this structure completed,
08:03 but it can be done
08:05 with your help.
08:07 We left Anissa reflecting,
08:09 as she often does,
08:11 four months later,
08:13 still trying to come to terms
08:15 with the cruelty she was dealt
08:17 by fate.
08:19 Overshoot, Wari Rupnurain, TV6 News.
08:21 Now to our people meter,
08:23 we ask, would you be willing
08:25 to help Anissa Rampersad
08:27 and her family rebuild their lives?
08:29 To vote, text "YES" or "NO"
08:31 to the number 7664886
08:33 or 7664 TV6.
08:35 We'll have the results for you
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