Jensen La Vende

An Ari­ma man who knocked down and killed a pedes­tri­an two months ago in Mal­abar, was robbed and shot dead on Sat­ur­day night near his girl­friend's home in Ari­ma on Sat­ur­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Kevon "Nosey" James, 30, of King­dom Av­enue, Ma­tu­ri­ta, was near his girl­friend's home lim­ing with friends dur­ing a cel­e­bra­tion for her birth­day, when he was ap­proached by gun­men who robbed him of two gold chains and sev­er­al gold rings be­fore shoot­ing him. Po­lice said the in­ci­dent took place close to mid­night.

James was ques­tioned and lat­er re­leased in the ac­ci­den­tal death of 19-year-old Ezekiel Bur­ton, of Old Train­line, Ari­ma.Bur­ton's death was cap­tured on CCTV cam­eras on Au­gust 6, around 7 am near Pro Sports Bar along the Mal­abar Ex­ten­sion Road.

In the video, Bur­ton was seen at­tempt­ing to cross the road af­ter pur­chas­ing dou­bles. On see­ing the on­com­ing ve­hi­cle, Bur­ton tried to get out of the way but slipped on the wet road. He was hit and thrown in­to the air, land­ing sev­er­al me­tres away. He died three days lat­er at the in­ten­sive care unit of the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, hav­ing nev­er re­gained con­scious­ness.

James, a labour­er, was the dri­ver of the black Hon­da Civic that struck Bur­ton. He was ques­tioned by po­lice and lat­er re­leased.

Speak­ing with the me­dia at her home yes­ter­day, Ly­dia Gar­cia says she holds no mal­ice to­wards those who maybe re­joic­ing in the demise of James, her first born and on­ly son.

Gar­cia said the hard­est thing since get­ting news of her son's death is fig­ur­ing out how to tell his two chil­dren about James' mur­der. One of her grand­chil­dren, she said, will be "cel­e­brat­ing" his sev­enth birth­day to­mor­row.

"I am numb right now be­cause I am just hurt­ing. I have no mal­ice to­wards any­one in my heart. God is good and I leave every­thing in His hands. It (the ac­ci­dent) was hard for him there was a lot of com­ments af­ter the ac­ci­dent but I want peo­ple to know it was an ac­ci­dent. My son did not see him (Bur­ton) and just knock him down. Any­one who saw that video will see that," Gar­cia said, adding that fol­low­ing the ac­ci­dent her son sel­dom ven­tured out­side.

Gar­cia said fol­low­ing the ac­ci­dent, her son apol­o­gised to Bur­ton's moth­er.Res­i­dents of King­dom Av­enue de­scribed James as a "cool one."The lat­est killing has tak­en the num­ber of peo­ple mur­dered for the year to 363.