An­na-Lisa Paul

The mur­der toll now stands at 148 af­ter the death of three men and the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­pos­ing corpse in Mar­aval. The most re­cent mur­der oc­curred around noon yes­ter­day, when Ri­car­do Camp­bell, 30, of Bev­er­ly Hills was gunned down at the Cana­da Plan­nings, Laven­tille.

Re­ports in­di­cate that Camp­bell was with a group of per­sons when he was ap­proached and shot four times in the head. He died on the spot. In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, a 16-year old school­girl re­turned to her St Au­gus­tine home on Thurs­day to find her fa­ther's hog-tied life­less body on the liv­ing-room floor.

Around 3.40 pm, the daugh­ter of Roop­nar­ine De­onar­ine, 44, a quar­ry own­er of War­ren Street, St Au­gus­tine alert­ed po­lice about the dis­cov­ery. Po­lice said a rope had been tied around De­onar­ine's neck, feet and hands. Two lap­top com­put­ers, a DVD play­er, a Nin­ten­do game, a cell phone and the vic­tim's Toy­ota Hilux were miss­ing.

Of­fi­cers at the scene in­clud­ed Snr Supt Abra­ham, ASPs Ho­sein and Joseph, and Sgt Sinanan. Mem­bers of the pub­lic are asked to call 555, 800-TIPS or 625-9457 if they have any in­for­ma­tion. De­onar­ine's rel­a­tives said they were baf­fled as to why any­one would want to kill the fa­ther of three. In an in­ter­view at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James, yes­ter­day, his broth­er In­dar De­onar­ine said, "I don't live here and I can't say why any­one would kill him. He did not re­ceive any death threats."

In­dar de­scribed De­onar­ine as a "fam­i­ly man who loved his chil­dren, and a straight­for­ward busi­ness­man." Around 2 pm on Thurs­day, a man dri­ving along Fond Pois Doux Road, Up­per Paramin, Mar­aval no­ticed a foul stench com­ing from a clump of bush­es. When he stopped to in­ves­ti­gate, he dis­cov­ered the body of an uniden­ti­fied African man with wounds to the head. Po­lice de­scribed the vic­tim as five feet, nine inch­es tall and said he was in his 30s.

The body was clad in long black pants, a white shirt and a brown and white tie. Peo­ple who have re­port­ed miss­ing rel­a­tives in the past week are asked to con­tact the Mar­aval Po­lice Sta­tion in an at­tempt to iden­ti­fy the man. The fourth man killed on Thurs­day was iden­ti­fied as Ke­ston Ol­livierre.

Ol­livierre, who was due to start work at ice cream mak­ers Fla­vorite to­day, was shot dead at Riv­er Es­tate, Diego Mar­tin, in the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day. The vic­tim's fa­ther, Ronald, said "You don't know what youths do when they lime on the block. He was lim­ing there and a man hail him out and turn around and shot him."