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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Fruit vendor shot at Chaguanas mini mart

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A fruit ven­dor died to­day at hos­pi­tal af­ter he was shot out­side Lau­ra & Joey's mi­ni mart around 10 pm yes­ter­day in Ch­agua­nas.

Cyril De Leon, a res­i­dent of En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, was ap­proached by an gun­man who was dressed in dark cloth­ing. Sev­er­al shots were fired be­fore the gun­man es­caped on a bi­cy­cle in a souther­ly di­rec­tion along School Street, En­ter­prise.

The in­ci­dent left 63-year-old De Leon with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds about the body. He was rushed to the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty for emer­gency treat­ment and was lat­er trans­fered to the Er­ic Williams Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he died.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in­clud­ing mem­bers of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tion De­part­ment (CID) and Ch­agua­nas Di­vi­sion Task Force vis­it­ed the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.


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