The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
VOLUME 111, No.39
www.thevincentian.com
Police moved quickly to cordon off the area where Wendel O’Neil and two others were shot. Below: Wendel ‘Grindy’ O’Neil was shot in the clear view of many persons.
SHOOTING DEATH IN ‘TOWN’ Stories by KENVILLE HORNE
A VERMONT MAN was shot and killed in Kingstown in broad daylight last Tuesday, September 26. Thirty-four-year-old Wendel O’Neil, better known as ‘Grindy’, was shot and killed around 1:00pm, while ‘hanging out’ at a vendor’s stall on the sea wall, just outside the Leeward Bus Terminal. His girlfriend - Jihan Browne of Chauncey — who was in his company, was also shot. Eyewitnesses told THE VINCENTIAN that a masked man alighted a vehicle and started “spraying bullet,” in the direction of O’Neal. Persons within the vicinity of the scene of the shooting scampered for safety, with some even jumping into the sea, one eyewitness said. Continued on Page 3. Jihan Browne had to undergo emergency surgery to remove bullets from several parts of her anatomy.
Raphael ‘Snake’ O’Neil was shot and killed just days before his brother Wendel.
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The arrow points to the spot where the body of Michael Edwards was found.
LOWMANS MAN KILLED IN ALLEGED HIT AND RUN POLICE ARE TREATING the death of a Lowmans Hill man, who was found a short distance from his home, as a road fatality. The body of Michael ‘Bully’ Edwards of Spring, Lowmans Leeward, was found last Wednesday morning, lying in the road that runs outside of James Apartments and Supermarket, and leads to the Spring community. Edwards’ body, showing Vernie Brown, signs of multiple bruises, Edwards’s aunt, was discovered sometime summed up the around 6am on Wednesday sentiments of by a female friend. other residents of When THE the area when she VINCENTIAN visited the described her scene, impressions of tire nephew as a marks with red colouration helpful, nonwere still discernable on the violent person. road, just a short distance from where the body was discovered. The police said they believed that Edwards was struck by a motor vehicle and dragged. A Station Sergeant from the Traffic Branch confirmed that Edwards’ death was being treated as a Road Fatality and no suspect has yet been identified. Edwards was well known in the Lowmans Leeward community. He was described as a ‘handyman’ who made a living by cleaning yards and picking fruits. He also sold coconut water just outside the Ash property on Lowmans Hill. Edwards’ aunt, Vernie Brown described him as an “everybody person,” adding, “He was loved by everybody because if you ask him to do anything, he never refuse. Sometimes I even think that people used to abuse him, because he wasn’t a lazy person.” Continued on Page 3.