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29 year-old Nikesha Romeo Sandy is Tobago's latest murder victim. The young woman was gunned down in Plymouth on Thursday morning while she was making her way to work. This is the second woman murdered in Tobago within one week and the 3rd for the year.


Reporter Elizabeth Williams visited the scene and filed this report.
Transcript
00:00 [shouting]
00:07 The screams of relatives and friends of 29-year-old Nikisha Romeo Sandy of Jaggers Hall trace Plymouth.
00:14 The employee of the Division of Infrastructure was shot mere metres away from her Plymouth home after leaving for work.
00:21 Her father, Kevin Sandy, said he was at home when he heard the gunshots.
00:26 Where were you at the time of the shooting?
00:30 I was next door right by my father right there, laying down sleeping.
00:35 And while I was laying down there sleeping, I heard the shots and them ringing off.
00:40 I was right there and I heard the shots and them ringing off this morning.
00:43 And I came outside and when I came outside now, I see one of my nephew running up back the hill.
00:50 And while he's running up back the hill, I asked him what happened.
00:53 And he turned out to me and tell me, "You know, Stunky lay down on the ground there. They shoot Stunky."
00:59 And when I run down there, I see my daughter on the ground lay down there.
01:02 Nikisha Romeo Sandy was a mother of one.
01:06 Police reports state that she was walking along Plymouth Road in the company of other people
01:11 when two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, approached her, pointed the weapon at her, and pulled the trigger several times.
01:20 As Miss Romeo Sandy fell to the ground, the people she was walking with scampered to safety.
01:26 Investigators say the men escaped on foot by running along River Road, Plymouth.
01:32 Area Representative and THA Assemblyman for Plymouth, Black Rock, Niall George, told TV6 News
01:39 he was at his Plymouth home when he heard the rapid gunshots and rushed to the scene,
01:45 only to realize that the victim was someone he knew.
01:48 This is someone that I knew from pretty much growing up.
01:52 And to actually hear the gunshots and be one of the first persons on the scene is very distressing.
01:58 My family is very close to us. We have grown up as neighbors.
02:02 My general thoughts on the crime situation is I really don't want to be able to get numb to the situation.
02:10 It has become very frequent. You can hear the breaking in my voice because, as I said,
02:17 it means much more when it's close, when it feels almost as if it's happening.
02:24 But we really need to get an arrest in this crime situation.
02:29 It's a very distressing situation. It's very uncomfortable.
02:32 Because you never know if there are other people around, people going to work.
02:37 I mean, this happened at around 5 minutes to 6, and there could have been collateral damage.
02:42 But just back then, I don't understand the logic and the violence against females.
02:47 This is in the space of pretty much less than two weeks, two females again.
02:51 So it's a very distressing situation.
02:54 The District Medical Office of Health visited the scene and ordered the body removed to the Scarborough Mortuary.
03:00 An autopsy is to be performed to determine the cause of death.
03:04 Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
03:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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