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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Executed at dawn

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KEVON FELMINE
2369 days ago
20190108

In­ves­ti­ga­tors say en­quiries in­to the dou­ble-mur­der of ma­rine work­ers Os­wald Al­leyne and Mark Stephen sug­gests that the lat­ter was the killers’ tar­get.

This be­lief was al­so shared by a few of the vic­tims’ rel­a­tives and friends fol­low­ing the shoot­ing near Stephen’s Val­ley Lane, Princes Town home on Tues­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, it was around 4.20 am af­ter Al­leyne, 63, of Watts Road, New Grant had just picked up Stephen, 41, at his home to go to work.

Al­leyne, a div­ing su­per­vi­sor and Stephens, a sea­man, both worked for a Ch­aguara­mas-based ma­rine com­pa­ny and was head­ing to the Her­itage ma­rine base in Point Fortin to work.

CCTV footage showed a white car pulling up along King Street, a short dis­tance away from the cor­ner of Val­ley Lane. A man wear­ing a cap ex­it­ed the pas­sen­ger’s door and calm­ly walked to Val­ley Lane. As Al­leyne re­versed his pick­up on­to King Street, the gun­man shot him sev­er­al times through the dri­ver’s side win­dow. Al­leyne at­tempt­ed to open the door, but could not es­cape. The gun­man then shot Stephen sev­er­al times be­fore sprint­ing to the get­away car.

Res­i­dents who heard the gun­shots saw Stephen hang­ing out of the pick-up while Al­leyne was slumped over the cen­tre con­sole. They con­tact­ed the Princes Town po­lice who found both men dead. Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three re­spond­ed and re­viewed the video footage in the area while South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force went in search of the sus­pects.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors sus­pect that the killers had in­ti­mate de­tails of their vic­tims as they knew that the men would be leav­ing for work ear­ly and po­si­tioned them­selves. A rel­a­tive added that if the killers were af­ter Al­leyne, they had 15-20 min­utes win­dow from the time he left home to when he ar­rived at Stephen’s house. Rel­a­tives said that it was the first day Stephen was re­turn­ing to work af­ter six months. They said he would usu­al­ly walk to King Street to wait for Al­leyne.

Al­leyne’s sis­ter, Pat­sy and oth­er rel­a­tives went to the mur­der scene but by the time they ar­rived, all they met was blood. Pat­sy said that her broth­er was good to every­one and if there was any­one who had a griev­ance with him, he would have reached out to him or her first.

“I don’t be­lieve my broth­er had en­e­mies,” Pat­sy said.

Stephen’s el­der broth­er David Rousseau said his broth­er was a qui­et and fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed man, who worked hard to take care of his 13-year-old son.

Stephens’ friends gath­ered at his home yes­ter­day. They called him the God­fa­ther of Bakey’s Bar, the wa­ter­ing hole where he and the oth­er vil­lagers hung out. They said Stephen was gen­er­ous and re­cent­ly spon­sored a lime among friends.

Eleven peo­ple have been killed in the first week of the year.


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