A 60 year old man was killed in Ladyville on Saturday morning - and it was because he was caught stealing mangoes. Tonight the police have charged the property owner who used a pellet gun to shoot Daniel Trapp out of a mango tree. Trapp, who is a drug addict well known in Ladyville for petty hustling - made it out of the tree, but not much further. We found out more today:..
Courtney Weatherburne Reporting
Mango season is coming in all over Ladyville and on Saturday hanging fruit like these meant murder for Daniel Trapp - a 60 year old with a substance abuse problem:
Alicia Trapp, Sister of deceased
"The boy walk with a limp, the boy behind is thin. Every time I see him he is getting thinner and I told him that he has to take care of yourself. In no way they should have knocked that man. In no way they should have shot that man. They could have beaten him, lash him with something and tell him not to come back in the yard, but to pull a gun and shoot him is unexplainable. I don't understand how human beings could live like that and treat other human beings like that."
Indeed, he was killed for a mango, three of them actually that he had stolen from this cluster of trees in the Perez property on Perez road.
An eyewitness - who asked for her identity to be concealed, heard the commotion:
Voice of: Eyewitness
"Around 9:30 when I was coming down my step to go wash, I just heard the pellet gun going off and I saw the man coming off the tree. When the man came off the tree he yelled that they shot him and after that he walk across the road and fell down."
Alicia Trapp, Sister of deceased
"He was found across the road from their yard in a feeder road yelling for help."
He was taken to the KHMH - where he died shortly after. Trapp may have been shot with a gun like this, a .22 air rifle - which is a recreational weapon, a pellet gun - that needs no license, but it can be deadly.
Alicia Trapp, Sister of deceased
"The bullet entered over his left nipple and only your heart is there. I am an EKG technician and I know about the heart."
And, in her heart she feels her brother was chanced:
Alicia Trapp, Sister of deceased
"They chance my brother big time. My brother is 60, a weak man and who walks sideways. Why does two men have to kill my brother? That is nonsense and we want justice for my brother because I think he was chanced."
This evening police charged Gilbert Orlando Perez with manslaughter not murder. He was arraigned before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith where he was remanded into custody until July 22.
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