South Bureau

Construction worker, Akeil Cromwell, was speaking with his mother on his cellphone when someone shot him dead on Tuesday night.

Cromwell, 32, was standing at the corner of Washington Road, Battoo Avenue and Southern Main Road, Marabella, when he was shot twice in the head around 11.15 p.m.

’I was talking to him on the phone when I heard a loud noise. I thought it was a gunshot and did not hear my son again. I got dressed and went to Marabella. I saw him on the ground. I was the worst thing a mother could see,’ said Cromwell’s mother, Sandrea Fields.

Cromwell lived at Sookoo Trace, Claxton Bay, with his common law wife and their five-year-old son.

His relatives were unable to say yesterday why someone would want him dead. The body was removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James, where an autopsy will be performed.

Detectives at the Marabella Police Station are working on the case.