The grand­fa­ther of 23-month-old Aki­ni Kafi, who was killed along with his fa­ther and fam­i­ly friend in a triple shoot­ing in Bel­mont, says on­ly di­vine in­ter­ven­tion can help Trinidad and To­ba­go over­come its crime sit­u­a­tion.

Aki­ni was de­clared dead on ar­rival at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, af­ter he was tak­en there with his moth­er, An­to­nia Cain-Kafi, who was al­so shot when gun­men opened fire on the ve­hi­cle they were trav­el­ling in along Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road.

Cain-Kafi was on her way to drop her child off at a day­care on May 7 when the at­tack oc­curred. Her hus­band, Aquiyl Kafi and his friend, An­tho­ny Wil­son, were al­so killed in the shoot­ing.