The fam­i­ly of a school­boy who was shot dead dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Mara­bel­la is now liv­ing in fear as po­lice in­ves­ti­gate the killing. Kr­is­han Khanai was gunned down at his fam­i­ly’s Tram­line Road home late Thurs­day night. Two rel­a­tives, Kr­ish­na Khanai and Leela Pariag, were al­so shot and wound­ed dur­ing the at­tack.

A rel­a­tive, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty out of fear for the fam­i­ly’s safe­ty, de­clined to dis­cuss the in­ci­dent when con­tact­ed by Guardian Me­dia. “We don’t want to speak about it,” the rel­a­tive said be­fore end­ing the con­ver­sa­tion. Po­lice be­lieve rob­bery was the mo­tive for the dead­ly at­tack.

Ac­cord­ing to in­ves­ti­ga­tors, of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to re­ports of loud ex­plo­sions around 11.41 pm and ar­rived at a wood­en house along Tram­line Road, where they found the school­boy ly­ing in a pool of blood with gun­shot wounds. The two oth­er oc­cu­pants were al­so dis­cov­ered suf­fer­ing from gun­shot in­juries and were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.