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Pastor calls for love at funeral of murdered 15-year-old boy
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Reverend Richard Wickham prays for Antonio Francois, alongside Nicole Brathwaite, mother of the murdered 15-year-old, during the funeral in Port of Spain on Saturday. -
NO WORDS can describe the loss of a child to a grieving mother, Reverend Richard Wickham told mourners at the funeral for murdered 15-year-old Antonio Francois, on Saturday.
Wickham said a widower is a man who lost their wife, a widow is a woman who lost her husband but for a mother who lost her child, there are no words to describe that,” he told the gathering at the David Guide and Son Funeral Chapel, Oxford Street, Port of Spain.
Second murdered teen to be buried Saturday
Antonio Francois -
ANTONIO FRANCOIS, one of two murdered teens who ran away from custody of the Children s Authority last month, will be buried on Saturday.
Speaking briefly with the Newsday on Thursday, Francois mother Nicole Brathwaite said her son s final rites will take place on Saturday, exactly a week after the funeral of the other murdered teen, Semion Daniel.
Brathwaite said the funeral service will take place at Guide s Funeral Chapel at St Vincent Street at 10 am.
Francois and Daniel, both 15, were shot dead on March 28. Their bodies were found on the roof of an abandoned house in Mc Shine Lands, Laventille, after neighbours reported hearing gunshots.
Murdered runaway teen tested positive for covid19
SHOT DEAD: Antonio Francois. - AYANNA KINSALE
ONE of the two teens who ran away from a Children’s Authority safe house, only to be murdered later, tested positive for the covid19 virus, his mother told Newsday.
When Newsday contacted Nicole Brathwaite about the funeral arrangements for her son Antonio Francois, she said that as a result of the covid19 positive test there are concerns about the intended burial of her last child and only son.
“They told me he was positive but I did not see any documentation and they did not put that on the death certificate,” she said, adding that she was contemplating getting a second test done by a private lab to confirm.
SHOT DEAD: Antonio Francois. -
THE MOTHER of a murdered teenager, Nicole Brathwaite, said her son, Antonio Francois, wanted to be a police officer, then later in life, a singer.
Francois was killed, along with his friend Semion Daniel, both 15, on Sunday night. Their bodies were found on the roof of an abandoned house in Mc Shine Lands, Laventille, after neighbours reported hearing gunshots.
The two were among five teenagers who escaped from the care of the Children s Authority in mid-March by squeezing through the burglarproofing of a home in north Trinidad
Two of the children are still on the run and a third was found after the double killing.