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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Guaya gang leader gunned down

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A 33-year-old Guayagua­yare gang leader was gunned down and his 17-year-old girl­friend wound­ed in what po­lice have dubbed a re­venge killing.Daud Rashad Ab­dul­lah, of Nurse Trace, New Lands Vil­lage, was shot six times by gang­sters who ac­cused him of kid­nap­ping and mur­der­ing a fel­low gang mem­ber who has been miss­ing since Au­gust.Af­ter the shoot­ing, one of the gun­men shout­ed, "That is for my part­ner Nyrie."Po­lice said the mur­der comes on the heels of an es­ca­lat­ing drug and gang war which has been plagu­ing the com­mu­ni­ty re­cent­ly.A fa­ther of five, Ab­dul­lah had charges for pos­ses­sion of arms and am­mu­ni­tion be­fore the Ma­yaro Mag­is­trates Court.

His teenage girl­friend, Vanes­sa Hep­burn-Ec­cles, was up to late last night ward­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, with a gun­shot wound to the stom­ach.The shoot­ing took place around 2 am, at Hep­burn-Ec­cles' home at La Sa­vanne Cir­cu­lar Trace, which she shares with her moth­er, step­fa­ther and two younger sib­lings.Alexan­drov said af­ter Ab­dul­lah was shot three times with a 9mm se­mi-au­to­mat­ic pis­tol, he be­gan to run but an­oth­er as­sailant with a shot­gun fol­lowed him and fired two more shots which struck him in the back. As he slowed down from the loss of blood, the gun­man ap­proached him and shot him again."He sus­tained the first two gun­shot wounds to his back, but this was at a dis­tant range, be­cause on­ly the pel­lets reached his skin. Then prob­a­bly he was weak­en­ing, as he was los­ing blood, and he was ap­proached by his as­sailant with a shot­gun, who shot him to the back of his head while still in a stand­ing po­si­tion. This­wound was at close range, be­cause I re­cov­ered the plas­tic wadding and prob­a­bly about 25 back shot pel­lets," Alexan­drov said.

Po­lice in­clud­ing In­sp Fitzger­ald George and Cpl Bachu along with am­bu­lances went to the scene, but so se­vere were the in­juries to Ab­dul­lah's heart, lungs, stom­ach, aor­ta, liv­er and spleen that he died im­me­di­ate­ly.Hep­burn-Ec­cles was tak­en to the Ma­yaro Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty and then trans­ferred to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal.

In an un­re­lat­ed mat­ter, po­lice have ar­rest­ed a sus­pect in the stab­bing death of 34-year-old Regi­nald Jack­man, who was killed af­ter a dis­pute over mon­ey.Jack­man, from Eve­lyn Trace, El So­cor­ro, was lim­ing at a bar on the Aranguez Branch Road around 2.40 pm yes­ter­day, when he and an­oth­er man got in­to an ar­gu­ment over mon­ey.The man pulled out a knife and stabbed Jack­man sev­er­al times. Jack­man was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, but was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed at his home on Aranguez Branch Road and the mur­der weapon was seized.The mur­der toll is now 55, 13 more than for the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od last year.


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