Five left dead Carnage in Kingstown:

Continued from Frontpage.

Vitara pulled up where the game was unfolding.

Masked gunmen exited the jeep and fired multiple rounds from what residents in the area of ‘Quarry’ (Uptown Kingstown), described as semiautomatic guns. The vehicle then fled the scene leaving the men in a pool of blood, from head wounds.

Residents described the shooting as being sustained for at least a full minute.

According to a police release, at about 8:00pm on 19th July 2023, the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force responded to a report of a mass shooting in the Harbour Club area of

Kingstown. “Investigations revealed that five (5) persons were fatally wounded. The police processed the scene and are carrying out further investigations into these shooting and other offences.” the release said.

And in a statement following the fatal shooting, the Commissioner of Police, Colin John, purported, “The serious crimes that are being committed are by and large committed by a very small group of people against others of the same ilk.”

He called upon the citizenry “..to settle their differences in a more mature, civilize and amicable manner. Also, we strongly advocate that person respect the rights to life of each other.

The victims

Ahead of confirmation by the police, THE VINCENTIAN can report that the dead are: Paul’s Avenue resident and businessman - Lamont ‘Dutchie’ Hector, Dondré Hillocks of Long Wall, Jamal ‘Dutty’ Bobb of Ottley Hall, Ricky Taylor of Long Wall and Kashie Primus, a 13-year-old also of Long wall.

Hector and Bobb have had their run-ins with the law. Hector has had to answer charges of money laundering and drug possession, and Bobb faced wounding and armed robbery charges.

Primus was the only one not to have died at the scene of the shooting. He succumbed to his injuries at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital the same night.

Reports are that other persons were taken to the hospital including Kyle Phillips who, up to press time on Thursday, was warded at the Milton Cato memorial Hospital.

Other homicides

Meanwhile, the police were quick to debunk information circulating on Wednesday evening that other shooting incidents had occurred that evening. The police stated that they had investigated the reports and found them to be false.

“There was no shooting in Ottley Hall, Campden Park, Fairbane Pasture or any other part in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Wednesday night,” according to the police report.

What is fact is that the fatal multiple shooting deaths on

Wednesday evening, came one day after two men were killed in different shooting incidents.

Kemon Roberts, 28, of Golden Vale, was shot in Calliaqua and lay dead in the street outside the Anglican Church Centre. He was reportedly shot in his head around 8am while on his way to work.

Later in the day, in the early evening hours, Kingsley ‘Crime’ Shallow was gunned down in Montague, Mesopotamia. Shallow is said to be the son of talk show host and taxi driver, Kingsley Defreitas and nephew of Calypso icon, the late Gerrard ‘Rashum’ Shallow.

The five killings on Wednesday and those of Shallow and Roberts take the homicide count in the country this year to 35 (including 3 during police action). The country had a record count of 42 homicides in 2022.