COLD-HEARTED gunmen stormed a house in Friendship Village, San Fernando during the early morning hours on October 10, shooting a family of four while they were all asleep and leaving three of them – a man, his wife and their son dead, and the son's wife in critical condition.

The shooting, which rocked the quiet village, brought to an end, a particularly bloody week in which at least 12 people were murdered in different areas of the country between Monday and Friday.

Shocked and dazed, relatives of the family which was almost wiped out in one single act of violence, claimed they were clueless as to the reason or motive behind the deadly shooting.