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A small group of main­ly fam­i­ly and a few Las Cuevas vil­lagers yes­ter­day paid trib­ute to Chad “Char­po” Joseph, who was killed in a US airstrike on a pur­port­ed drug ves­sel on Oc­to­ber 14, close to Venezuela.

While those gath­ered at the memo­r­i­al ser­vice were som­bre and in tears, Joseph’s aunt, Lynette Burn­ley, was emo­tion­al. She said if giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty, she would tell US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to stop killing in­no­cent peo­ple.

Speak­ing with the me­dia at her Las Cuevas Vil­lage home af­ter a memo­r­i­al ser­vice at the St Michael’s RC Church for her 26-year-old nephew, Burn­ley called on Trump to stop what she called the “ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings.”