SHZEEM Aaron Williams lost his life in a motorcycle crash just five days before he would have celebrated his 25th birthday.
The young Carapichaima man, a police officer attached to the Cunupia Criminal Investigations Department (CID), was involved in a fatal accident on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway near Freeport on Saturday night.
One of two motorcycle bikes are seen on the compound of the Freeport Police Station yesterday afternoon.
Shazam Aaron Williams, 24, an off-duty police officer
of Brickfield Road, Waterloo, was driving his motorcycle and died in a fatal accident along the Sir Solomon Hocchoy Highway, near Freeport, on Saturday. -Photo: DEXTER PHILIP
A police report stated that the 24-year-old lost control of the motorcycle he was driving and crashed into guardrails in Freeport. His body was flung onto the roadway and hit by several vehicles, police said.
The collision resulted in a backlog of traffic that stretched along the highway for hours.
GRIEVING: Lisa and Shevlin Williams, parents of police officer Shzeem Aaron Williams, inset, speak during an interview with the Express yesterday afternoon. Shzeem, 24, of Brickfield Road, Waterloo, was off duty while riding his motorcycle and died in the accident along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, near Freeport, on Saturday.
—Photo: DEXTER PHILIP
He was off duty at the time of the accident.
Speaking to the Express briefly at the family’s home in Harry-Goland Street yesterday, Williams’ distraught mother Lisa Williams said she received the news of her son’s passing from police officers who visited them on Saturday night.
Videos of her son’s body strewn across the roadway, and a severed arm had been circulating on social media, she said.
She said she had warned Williams to be careful on several occasions. The young man had taken up the hobby of motorcycling in the years prior, and had at one point broken his femur.
“He was off duty and was on a lime with some friends. Earlier this year, he had an accident where he broke his left femur, and he only recently came off that and started to ride. He rode bikes as a hobby…I warned him about this bike, and he did not listen. I spoke to him about the bike this Friday,” she said.
Williams’ mother said her son did not have a spouse or children and had worked for five years as an officer in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS). She said she last spoke to him on Friday evening but did not get a chance to see him in the hours before his passing.
She described him as an honest and helpful young man, who was all a mother could ask for.
“He was honest, hard-working, the best son anyone could ask for. He was never disrespectful and never raised his voice. The best son you could ever ask for,” she said.
To those using the nation’s roads, she advised, “Be extremely careful.”
As news of his death broke, friends and family took to social media to offer tributes.
“Really a horrific way to die. This is so sad and met days before your birthday. No one knows the second, minute or hour their life will be snatched. Life is too short. Sleep in eternal peace PC Williams and condolences to TTPS—Cunupia CID family,” one person wrote.
“Condolences, really sad, Willie. Only Friday morning we talked, you were supposed to buy doubles, now you’re no more. You are one of the few I could call and depend on. Lord Jesus, I pray for your strength upon his family lives I pray Lord that you continue to cover the protective services with your blood,” another said.
