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Friday, July 11, 2025

Two more murdered

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20140517

Two more mur­ders have pushed the death toll to 169. Dead are Math­ew "Cox" Weekes, of Sea Trace, Bagatelle, and Kion Grif­fith, of Maps Land, Laven­tille.Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 8 pm on Fri­day Grif­fith, 26, and his cousin Mar­tin King, 24, were out­side their Maps Land home when they heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions.

Rel­a­tives of the men ran out­side and found King ly­ing on the ground with gun­shot wounds to this chest. Grif­fith was not found. Af­ter un­suc­cess­ful­ly search­ing for Grif­fith dur­ing the night, of­fi­cers were called back to the scene around 9 am yes­ter­day af­ter a passer­by spot­ted Grif­fith in a track along Snake Val­ley.In the sec­ond killing, po­lice said Weekes was at home with his girl­friend around 12.10 am yes­ter­day when a gun­man en­tered an open door and opened fire on the sleep­ing cou­ple.

Weekes was shot sev­er­al times.The sus­pect es­caped. Su­per­in­ten­dent Ed­wards, Sgt Bac­chus and PC Gor­don vis­it­ed the scene and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.


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