In a devastating recurrence of violence, 37-year-old Kellyann Lemessy was fatally shot on January 22 in Lazzari Village, Rio Claro, marking the second homicide within her family in under eight months. The incident occurred as Lemessy sat inside a parked vehicle within a residential yard along Naparima Mayaro Road, where responding officers discovered the car still idling with multiple bullet impacts visible through the windshield.
Law enforcement authorities later located a suspected getaway vehicle abandoned on San Pedro Road in nearby Poole Village, though no arrests have been made in connection with the killing. This tragedy echoes the murder of Lemessy’s sister, 41-year-old Cassie-Ann ‘Candice’ Lemessy, who was shot dead while in her van on June 17, 2025, near her Mayaro residence. The elder Lemessy, a contractor and mother of two, had been memorialized just three days before police apprehended 35-year-old Samuel Paul of Mayaro for her homicide. That case remains active within the judicial system.
Complicating the familial narrative, court records indicate that Kellyann Lemessy and another female relative faced criminal charges following an alleged May 2025 assault against a male family member in Mayaro that resulted in severe burn injuries. Both women were granted bail after being charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm, with those proceedings also ongoing.
Investigators from both the Eastern Division and Region Three’s Homicide Bureau are actively working to determine potential connections between these incidents, though the precise motive behind Kellyann Lemessy’s murder remains undetermined at this time.