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The families of two Trinidad and Tobago nationals killed in a US missile strike at sea filed a sweeping wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court in Massachusetts, accusing the United States of carrying out unlawful killings during a controversial campaign targeting small boats in the Caribbean.

The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts under admiralty jurisdiction on January 27.

It alleges that a US military strike on October 14, 2025, destroyed a small boat travelling from Venezuela toward Trinidad, killing all six people aboard. Among the dead were Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, residents of Las Cuevas, who their families say were returning home after fishing and farm work in Venezuela.