Jensen La Vende

Two months af­ter he was shot sev­er­al times leav­ing him paral­ysed, a Diego Mar­tin man was yes­ter­day killed by men who po­lice say wore po­lice and reg­i­ment cloth­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 3.35 am yes­ter­day 36-year-old Ker­wyn Scott was at his home at Field Trace, Blue Basin Road, when three gun­men came in and shot him while he was on his bed.

Po­lice said the gun­men told Scott "we ketch yuh" be­fore open­ing fire.

Scott's killing pushed the mur­der toll to 20 up to late yes­ter­day.

Scott, po­lice said, was killed for one of two rea­sons–to si­lence him as the main wit­ness in the at­tempt on his life last year–or to en­sure he was dead af­ter the first at­tempt failed.

Speak­ing with the me­dia at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day three fe­male rel­a­tives of Scott said his killing has left the fam­i­ly with­out a pa­tri­arch.

The women, who asked not to be iden­ti­fied, fear­ing they will be tar­get­ed by Scott's killers, said he was a out­spo­ken man who might have been killed be­cause of it.

The women said Scott, a fa­ther of three, nev­er changed his out­spo­ken­ness even af­ter he was left in a para­plegic state.

They added that Scott would come across as rough to some but it was not, as "deep down he meant well." The women said his killing was a re­sult of the bad com­pa­ny he kept.

Speak­ing at the mur­der scene Scott's girl­friend, Tis­han John-Bap­tist, ques­tioned how the killers were able to ac­cess law en­force­ment uni­forms.

"The gun­men run in the yard bawl­ing 'Po­lice!' They came in our side and that's where they did it. Thank the Lord noth­ing hap­pen to me. Their faces were cov­ered.

"They had on army and po­lice clothes. The po­lice sim­ply said gang re­lat­ed so I don't ex­pect much but I hope the peo­ple and them who do it give up them­selves. Please stop the war," she said.

Sgt Elvin of the Re­gion One Homi­cide Bu­reau is spear­head­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions. JLV