Dad and daughter were shot dead
(little lady was only 5)SOLOMON Joseph and his five-year-old daughter were shot dead, and not stabbed, as police were initially told.
Joseph was shot three times in the abdomen. The child was shot once in the neck. The motive for the killings remains a mystery.
Autopsies on the bodies were done on Friday at the Forensic Science Centre, St James.
The bodies were found inside the family's small wooden home at Mamoral No. 1, central Trinidad on Friday morning.
Relatives were told that people liming on the road near the house heard explosions shortly after midnight.
Hours later, Joseph, 36, was found at the base of a bed, with one foot on the mattress. Daughter Solisha was in the bed, and the first responder thought she was asleep until were discovered.
The mother, Kernisha Solomon worked the 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift at a casino.
The killings were discovered shortly after 3 a.m. after Solomon, 22, tried contacting her husband, because he was late in picking her up from work.
When he did not answer, she contacted a neighbour who when went to check on the family. It was the neighbour who found Solomon Joseph dead, and thought the daughter was still asleep.
Solisha Solomon was a first year pupil of the Carapo Roman Catholic Primary School.
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