THE pain a mother gets from losing a losing a child is indescribable, for Dianne Hernandez, she had to go through that four times, the most recent on Thursday morning.

Hernandez’s son 41-year-old Dillon “Toe-Toe” De Silva was gunned down while leaving the home of a neighbour at Western Main Road, Cocorite near John Street.

De Silva also lived at John Street and was described by his mother as “a bit slow.”

Police said around 11.30 am, a man came out of a black car and shot De Silva dead. About half an hour later, two suspects, 25 and 35, from Waterhole Cocorite ,were held. The men were heading east along Independence Square South in a black Toyota Yaris when they were stopped by Port of Spain Task Force officers.

The police also seized a loaded gun.

Police suspect De Silva was killed because he was mistaken for another man who lives on the compound where De Silva was killed.

Hernandez said her pain began over two decades ago when her son, Orson Ricardo Hernandez, then ten years old, was knocked down and died. Years later, her daughter Kelly Hernandez was murdered and after that another daughter Vanessa Hernandez died of cervical cancer.

[caption id="attachment_1025511" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Crime scene investigators examine the house and yard at which Dillon De Silva was gunned down on the Western Main Road in Cocorite on Thursday. - Angelo Marcelle[/caption]

Hernandez explained: “My son was just ten-years-old when a neighbour ask him to go in the shop to change some money for her. He was bareback and playing when this woman asked him to go and change the money. My son had one foot to put on the pavement when he get hit and pitch up in the air.”

She said her son fell and hit his head and died. This was 25 years ago. Hernandez said the driver died sometime after.

That was her first heartache. Then came her daughter who was killed and her body stuffed in a cesspit.

In September, 2010, Hernandez’s 32-year-old daughter was beaten, knocked unconscious and dumped inside the cesspit where she drowned.

Her former fiancé Ruston Lynch, then 38, of Calvary Hill, Morvant was charged with her murder. He is accused of murdering her at a house at Calvary Hill, Morvant, between September 15 and 19, 2010. That matter is awaiting trial in the High Court.

“When that happened, up to now the police never come and tell me anything. It was a stranger who went all the way to Carenage to find me and tell me. My daughter also call and tell me because she heard it on the news.”

“My daughter was put in a cesspit and then it was covered back up and tiled.”

[caption id="attachment_1025512" align="alignnone" width="867"] Dillon De Silva was kiiled on the Western Main Road in Cocorite on Thursday. His mother Dianne Hernandez, right, was at the scene to identify her son. - Angelo Marcelle[/caption]

The 60-year-old said she gave birth to nine children and have had the pain of burying three and will be soon burying a fourth.

Asked how she was coping with the losses, Hernandez added another loss before ans