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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad--The 28-year-old son of a well-known People's National Movement (PNM) activist was gunned down Wednesday night as he was entering a mosque for prayers.
Daniel Bostic died in hospital after being shot multiple times.
But his mother Marva Bostic, who served as a PNM education officer under the Patrick Manning administration, has dismissed any suggestion that the murder of her son – who converted to Islam two years ago – was politically motivated.
"I refuse to believe that someone will kill my son in the mosque in the month of Ramadan to set religious or political strife," she told the Trinidad Guardian newspaper.
"I don't know why this happened. I don't know that he has any enemies. I don't want to judge. Let the police do their investigations."
Police reports indicate that Bostic, a father of two, was entering the Jama Masjid in San Fernando to pray when a man dressed in dark clothing walked up behind him and shot him at the back of his head.
"The call to prayer had just been made and he was on his way to worship when this guy just walked up behind and shot him. As he fell to the ground, the man stood over him and shot him a few more times," one witness told Newsday.
His sister Kisha Bostic told the newspaper that brother had called her seconds before he was killed, but she had missed the call.
"I was checking my phone and I realised that he had reached out to me at 7:34pm. He called to tell me something but did not get through. He left a voice message and as I listened to the message, I heard the gunshots," she cried.
"I have that message still on my phone. He called me as he was being hunted down ... I heard the gunshots which took my brother's life. It is tough for me knowing I dropped my little brother off and he tried to reach out to me and I wasn't there."
Several Muslim organisations expressed outrage at the shooting, but urged Muslims to be calm and not retaliate. ~ Caribbean360 ~
