FAMILIES of two Trinidadian men killed in a US missile strike last October have filed a lawsuit against the US government, alleging wrongful death and extrajudicial killing.

The claim was filed in the US district court for Massachusetts in Admiralty on January 27 by Lenore Burnley, the mother of Chad Joseph, 26, and Sallycar Korasingh, the sister of Rishi Samaroo, 41. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the surviving family members of both men.

Joseph and Samaroo were among six people killed on October 14, 2025, when a missile struck a small civilian boat as it travelled from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago. The men were returning home to Las Cuevas when the strike occurred.