Cold Case Files – Preston Rivers

The night of 17 Sept. 2011 still feels like yesterday for Erica Webster; that was when life for her and her family changed forever.

It is the date when her 18-year-old brother Preston Ezikiel Rivers was gunned down in West Bay.

“My brother didn’t get to live his life… I can’t, I can’t,” Erica sobbed as she broke down in tears on 3 Nov. when she spoke with the Cayman Compass.

Rivers lost his life to gang violence.

He was ambushed and shot multiple times after he exited a car at an apartment complex on Andresen Road, off Conch Point Road on that September night.

The painful memory of losing her baby brother, she said, remains with her to this day.

“Not a day… not a day we have [forgotten him],” she said.

Rivers, of West Bay, was one of four young men murdered during what police called tit-for-tat gang-related killings.

His murder is the second killing being profiled in this special four-part series in the Cold Case Files, in partnership with the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service.