What was sup­posed to be a mo­ment of cel­e­bra­tion turned in­to mourn­ing and re­flec­tion last evening, as rel­a­tives, friends and neigh­bours of Aki­ni Kafi came out to re­mem­ber him with a march call­ing for an end to gun vi­o­lence.

Aki­ni, who would have cel­e­brat­ed his third birth­day yes­ter­day, was killed when the ve­hi­cle his fam­i­ly was trav­el­ling in was rid­dled with bul­lets in Bel­mont on May 7. 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 in 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 when the at­tack oc­curred. Her hus­band, Aquiyl Kafi and his friend, An­tho­ny Wil­son, were al­so killed in the shoot­ing.

Wil­son, who po­lice be­lieve was the tar­get, was buried on Wednes­day.