Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

A mi­nor is ex­pect­ed to be charged for the mur­der of 15-year-old Beris Joseph, To­ba­go’s first homi­cide for 2025.

Joseph’s body was found in the Mt. Hay area on Jan­u­ary 4. The night be­fore res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots in the area.

An au­top­sy re­vealed he was shot mul­ti­ple times about the head and neck.

Days af­ter his death, a dis­turb­ing video sur­faced show­ing him bound and taunt­ed be­fore his death. At one point in the video chil­dren on bi­cy­cles cir­cled him as he laid tied up on the street.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Joseph’s aunt, An­gela Tay­lor, said the fam­i­ly is dev­as­tat­ed but try­ing to cope.

Joseph was laid to rest two days ago.

She said the sus­pect is a close friend of the fam­i­ly and she is con­fused over what went wrong be­tween Beris and the sus­pect that led to his death.

Yes­ter­day DPP Roger Gas­pard SC ad­vised homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors yes­ter­day to pro­ceed with charg­ing the ju­ve­nile for Joseph’s mur­der.