The bereaved mother of 18-year-old Javon Hamilton, who was fatally shot by an on-duty prison officer during an alleged home invasion incident in Freeport, has launched a formal legal push to obtain full transparency around the suspicious circumstances of her son’s death. Represented by attorney Petronilla Basdeo of Global Law Chambers, Vicky Daniel submitted a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) application directly to the Commissioner of Police (CoP) on Wednesday, demanding full access to all case-related materials that local law enforcement has compiled in the months since the teen was killed. Hamilton’s death has been shrouded in conflicting official accounts from the very start, with Daniel stating that initial police briefings claimed her son sustained gunshot wounds to his hand and foot, only for the subsequent autopsy report to confirm the fatal bullet struck him in the back. To date, Daniel confirms that no member of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has reached out to her to provide any update on the active investigation, nearly three months after she formally identified her son’s body on September 25. The wide-ranging FOIA request covers every category of documentation tied to the case: all witness statements, official police patrol diary and personal pocket diary excerpts, field investigation reports, recorded interview transcripts, scene photographs, the full finalized post-mortem report, and any other supporting records related to the shooting. Daniel has also demanded granular details about the 9mm Smith & Wesson M&P service pistol the prison officer discharged that day, including the total number of rounds fired at the scene, the full inventory of spent shell casings recovered by forensics teams, all completed ballistic testing reports, gunshot residue analysis results, and documentation of the projectile extracted from Javon’s body. Additional requested materials include the full missing person report Hamilton’s family filed in the hours before they learned of his death, all records of collaboration and information shared by the Hunters Search and Rescue Team that assisted the family during that search, and full forensic documentation of the alleged firearm or bladed object authorities claim Hamilton was carrying at the time of the shooting. Daniel is specifically seeking confirmation whether the item was a real functional firearm or an imitation, as well as full records of any fingerprint or DNA testing completed on the object. The application also demands disclosure of all CCTV footage, audio recordings, and witness accounts that track Hamilton’s movements in the 24 hours leading up to the incident, the full inventory of his personal property seized from the scene (including his mobile phone and the clothing he was wearing at the time of the shooting), an official update on whether the full investigation file has been submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions for charging advice, and formal confirmation of whether a mandatory coroner’s inquest will be scheduled to examine the teen’s death. Attorney Basdeo emphasized in the filing that per Sections 15 and 35 of the national FOIA legislation, the Commissioner of Police is legally required to process the application and provide a formal response within 30 days, even for portions of the request that reference potentially exempt documents, and warned that the legal team will initiate High Court proceedings if no response is received within that statutory window. In a telephone interview with local outlet the Express, Daniel shared that conflicting public accounts of the incident simply do not align, and that the prison officer who shot her son, later confirmed to be a distant family relative, has never reached out to the family in the months since the shooting. She noted that while she appreciated the public apology issued by Javon’s father Victor Hamilton shortly after the tragedy, her sole priority now is securing unvarnished truth to find closure for her youngest child and only son. “The stories don’t add up, like the local saying goes – the numbers don’t math, nothing lines up properly,” Daniel told reporters. “I just need to know exactly what happened that day, what sequence of events led to my son being killed. I’m taking it one day at a time, and once I get all the documents from the FOIA request, my legal team and I will decide what next steps are appropriate.”