Investigators have clarified that shooting victim Vijai Rampersad – originally reported as being killed in a shooting incident at his Friendship Village, San Fernando home on Friday – is still alive but is in a coma at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the San Fernadno General Hospital.

A relative of the family told Newsday that Rampersad had died some nine hours after he was shot at home in an incident which also claimed the lives of his wife Gracelyn Rampersad and their son Randy Rampersad.

A story in Newsday on October 11, quoted the relative as saying: "My brother just called meh and said that Vijai now dead, I'm not in Friendship Village right now."