What was ex­pect­ed to be a day of ju­bi­la­tion for Geor­gio Young — his moth­er’s birth­day and his step­son’s grad­u­a­tion — end­ed in tragedy when he was fa­tal­ly gunned down.

Young, 23, was mur­dered by his child­hood friend dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion at Per­se­ver­ance Street, a short dis­tance away from his home in Tar­o­dale, Ste Madeleine, on Thurs­day. Young was un­der a house around 2.30 pm when he got in­to an al­ter­ca­tion with the sus­pect. Dur­ing the strug­gle, the sus­pect’s firearm re­port­ed­ly fell to the ground. How­ev­er, he quick­ly re­trieved it and shot Young sev­er­al times. Young col­lapsed in a near­by drain while the sus­pect fled the scene. Rel­a­tives rushed him to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead at 3.09 pm.

At their Hope Street home yes­ter­day, Young’s rel­a­tives could not con­tain their grief. His heart­bro­ken moth­er, Sal­isha, 48, said Young went to check on his friends while he wait­ed for her to get dressed for his step­son’s grad­u­a­tion.