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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Carpenter gunned down in Belmont

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Rel­a­tives of the coun­try's lat­est mur­der vic­tim, car­pen­ter Dwayne Reuben, be­lieve he was set up to be killed yes­ter­day morn­ing.Reuben, 30, was shot dead a short dis­tance away from his Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont home.Ac­cord­ing to rel­a­tives Reuben, who was al­so a part-time PH dri­ver, was called to the area around 4 am by a fe­male friend, who want­ed to be dropped at Pi­ar­co air­port.

Speak­ing with mem­bers of the me­dia out­side the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, Reuben's girl­friend Vanes­sa Di­az, who went to iden­ti­fy the body, said they had been to­geth­er for the past three years and he was not a trou­ble­mak­er. She said the last time she saw him was on Thurs­day, when she gave him a pedi­cure.

"I would miss him a lot, be­cause he was my friend and my every­thing," Di­az sobbed, adding that Reuben would not usu­al­ly be up at those ear­ly hours and was the type to be home if he was not work­ing.Reuben's fa­ther, Roy Reuben, said he did all he could to en­sure that his son, one of 16 chil­dren, was apt­ly pro­vid­ed for so that he would not have to seek help from any­one or turn to il­lic­it means to earn a liv­ing. Reuben said his son was not in any gang ac­tiv­i­ty.

"Just last night he was play­ing a game and I was by him and next thing this morn­ing I get a call say­ing he dead," Reuben said.Around 5 am res­i­dents of Mary­land, Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont, heard gun­shots and then found Reuben's bul­let-rid­dled body. No mo­tive for the killing has been de­ter­mined.Reuben's killing pushed the mur­der toll to 45, while the fig­ure for the same pe­ri­od last year stood at 38.


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