Two years on, Aretha Showers remains haunted by the gun murder of her brother Colford Ferguson.The 29-year-old father-of-one was shot dead as he worked on a building “just two minutes away” from his older sister’s Somerset home.The unsolved murder, believed gang-related by police, baffles Mr Ferguson’s family, who remain active in vigils for other victims of Bermuda’s gun violence.“My brother felt he could go anywhere,” Ms Showers said.“If he felt Somerset was a place he could not go, he wouldn’t have come. Just before he got shot he spent Christmas at my house, and Colford walked down that same hill where he got shot two months later. I am sure he never would have walked around Somerset like that if he thought it was dangerous.”Police have ruled out gang membership on the part of Mr Ferguson, but he may have run afoul of the Island’s territorial boundaries.“Colford was a town boy, because that’s where his friends were and where we grew up,” his sister said.However, she added: “With Colford, he was not just stationary. Colford lived in St George’s, town, Warwick — he stayed with me in Southampton for a period of time. So that’s why I don’t understand it. He caught the bus that day. It wasn’t like he was on a bike, where they would know he was there.”Mr Ferguson was shot while working as a carpenter on February 4, 2011. He’d been hired just for the day; the shooting happened while his co-worker was off the premises.The building where he was murdered had been a residence but is now a store.“I couldn’t pass that way for a while after it happened. Every time I go past there, I think about him. But I have to go by that way,” Ms Showers said.Asked if she saw any end in sight to the Island’s gun murders, Ms Showers said: “You don’t want any family to go through what you’ve gone through yourself. At the end of the day you don’t want someone innocent, someone just walking by, to get hit. There is no answer. I just pray that it stops one day. It’s something we have to come together as a community to see how we can stop it.”Mr Ferguson is also survived by siblings Desmond, Kirk, Jomel and Rochelle Smith and his five-year-old daughter Ny-Ashia Ferguson-Wilson.“He was very close to his daughter,” recalled Ms Showers. “There’s still part of Colford in her. She looks like him and acts like him in so many ways. She’s still going through emotions, waking up nights crying and asking for her daddy. It’s tough. I have three little girls of my own and they all loved their uncle Colford. When he was around they’d be jumping all over him.”She said the family was in close contact with police in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Once six months passed, with no one charged with the killing, the contact dwindled.“I had to go in and view his body, and even when I saw him I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “But I have never turned toward anger. Others of my family members have wanted to know who this person is who killed my brother. My mind does not go there often. I believe justice is going to be served either way, if it’s through the law or through the Lord. But I do hope to see it. I just can’t even explain how I would feel if I were to see the person who murdered my brother. What type of peace would that bring?”The group Colford’s Family Against Violence took part in last month’s candlelit vigil at Happy Valley Road, after the double murder of Ricco Furbert and Haile Outerbridge.“We started it out and we try to keep it going. However, there were a lot of murders after that. We were doing it for the individuals but it was being put on by our cousin Keona Smith. She continues doing it,” Ms Showers said.Her lingering grief over her brother’s death remains ever-present, she said.“You don’t get over it. I’ve learned this. I have a picture of him in my room. As soon as I wake up, that’s who I’m looking at. In the beginning I had to take it down because I couldn’t deal with it. It still hurts. You can’t deal with it ... Like today is his anniversary. I started to get emotional last night and then I said, ‘No, I’m strong enough’. The pain doesn’t stay as long as it did when it first happened.”Asked what she saw as the root cause of the killings, Ms Showers said: “Being a young Bermudian at the time the Department of Education decided to make the mega schools, I remember being at the meeting — I was a student at Devonshire Academy. They wanted parents and students to meet. Deep down, even at that young age, I felt it was not the right move. Now we are seeing the problems from it.“We have problem children coming out of bad homes, and it’s not their fault. Sometimes you get sympathetic teachers like we had at Devonshire Academy, that would take the time with that child. But when you have a big set full of children, it’s too hard. Now we have these children falling through the cracks.”According to police, the Ferguson case remains open and under investigation.“Whilst no one has been charged, we believe that the case can be solved,” a spokesman said.Bringing the killers to justice depends on “members of the community coming forward, and doing what is right”.He added: “Someone knows something about this case. Someone knows where guns are being kept. Someone knows who the killers are in our community.”Anyone with information can contact the Serious Crime Unit on 247-1739, or Crime Stoppers’ confidential hotline, 800-8477.