The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
VOLUME 110, No.46
www.thevincentian.com
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KYDD SLAIN IN HAIL OF GUNFIRE
gunshots. One resident said that he counted at least 15 gunshots. AN INVESTIGATION has THE VINCENTIAN been launched into the understands that Kydd, death of Allonzo Kydd, who a.k.a. ‘Crackie’, was was killed on Monday gunned down within November 21, 2016, about walking distance of his 9:35pm. father’s home, about 100 Residents in the Villa metres from the Flat area , where 23Community College year-old Kydd was compound. apparently shot, said Police said that they they were awakened by received a call that there the sound of a series of was a shooting in the Villa area, and when they responded, they found the Fair Hall resident’s body in a narrow side road with multiple gunshot wounds, sometime around 9:40 pm on Monday. A resident, whose abode is not too far from his (Kydd) father’s home, told THE VINCENTIAN that he was aware that Kydd was coming from the bakery in Calliaqua, and was on his way to visit his father, when he met his death. He also said that he heard the Allan Bobb, Kydd’s father, wants the police loud and continuous to do their duty and get gunfire. That resident to the bottom of his described Kydd as a very son’s death. Stories by KENVILLE HORNE
humble person, who normally kept to himself. He did, however, relate that it was rumoured that the dead man had been in conflict with persons in the surrounding area.
An obvious distraught father
Jayquan May (right) and his brother Jaafaan May in happier times.
Allonzo ‘Crackie’ Kydd another shooting victim.
he said. Bobb said he mustered Kydd’s father, Allan the courage to look Bobb, in an interview outside, but did not see with THE anything suspicious. VINCENTIAN, said he is Minutess after, he saddened by his son’s received a phone call, death, since he was a and the caller inquired good person. “He was a about what was taking good person. He would place in the be by his mommy or his neighbourhood, to which grandmother and he replied, “I don’t sometimes by me,” said know.” Bobb. It was after the call According to the that he said he decided grieving father, he was to go outside, and at that at home with his point saw residents and girlfriend listening to the police officers in his radio, when ‘the drama’ neighbour’s yard. started. Someone eventually “I heard like informed him that his fireworks, and I wonder son was lying dead there. what that is. After, I thought it was gunshot,” Continued on Page 3.
MISSING BOY’S FAMILY NEEDS SUPPORT Story on Page 3.
Shaoma Baptiste (left – mother of the boys) and Hazel-Ann Lynch (grandmother), pictured recently with Jaafaan, have both appealed to the authorities for support.