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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Murder count jumps to 329

Bandits kill Sauce doubles vendor....

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
2194 days ago
20190811

In a brazen “ma­chine gun” at­tack in Curepe on a busy Sat­ur­day night where a dou­bles ven­dor was shot, scores of limers and late night snack­ers were left shak­en, in shock and thank­ing God for sav­ing their lives.

How­ev­er, co-work­ers, friends and fam­i­ly of dou­bles ven­dor Sharzard Man­ick, 34, are said to be in deep­er shock, grief and some­what con­fused as to why some­one would want him dead.

Man­ick was em­ployed with his fam­i­ly busi­ness, The Orig­i­nal Sauce Dou­bles and fond­ly called Sha­zo. He was the fa­ther if an 11-year-old girl.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, Man­ick was at his dou­bles stand along the South­ern Main Road prepar­ing dou­bles for cus­tomers when two men heav­i­ly armed with what was de­scribed as “ma­chine guns” and “high pow­ered weapons” ap­proached him and opened fire.

The gun­men then ran off and es­caped in a wait­ing ve­hi­cle.

Man­ick was shot sev­er­al times about the body.

He was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex but was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

At the scene yes­ter­day, there was no sign of the area be­ing a crime scene the night be­fore as there was no pieces of crime scene tape to be seen. Even the dou­bles booth was com­plete­ly moved out.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia, a rel­a­tive who wished not to be named or pho­tographed said Man­ick picked up his shift du­ty at about 7 pm. He would have end­ed at 11pm.

“Be­cause of the crime sit­u­a­tion we don’t go till 4 am. We try to lock off work by 11 pm, 11.30 pm or by mid­night for the lat­est, “ the rel­a­tive said.

Asked the pos­si­ble mo­tive and if ru­mours had it that he was a wit­ness to a mur­der case, the rel­a­tive replied: “I can’t say if he was a wit­ness. We re­al­ly don’t know be­cause he was the type to not talk his per­son­al busi­ness. We just knew him to be a very hard­work­ing guy and some­one who was good and hum­ble. He loved out­door ac­tiv­i­ties like fish­ing and any­thing na­ture.”

“In fact we were all look­ing to lime and spend time to­geth­er this com­ing Sun­day be­cause we have a fam­i­ly wed­ding and be­cause of our dou­bles busi­ness we are al­ways busy and don’t have time for each oth­er so this Sun­day com­ing would have been the first time in a long time for all of us to have fun to­geth­er... Now it will be dif­fer­ent, “ the rel­a­tive added.

The rel­a­tives said they are hop­ing and pray­ing for jus­tice and added that the po­lice car­ry out their in­ves­ti­ga­tions the way they are sup­posed too, in­clud­ing seek­ing to re­trieve the many sur­veil­lance foot ages that would have been cap­tured from sev­er­al CCTV cam­eras around the en­tire area as there are many busi­ness­es around.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre on Mon­day.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, at about 7.30 am yes­ter­day (Sun­day) Ja­son Romero was found dead out­side his ve­hi­cle which was parked in the vicin­i­ty of the In­dus­tri­al Es­tate along the La­dy Young Road in Mor­vant. Po­lice said Romero was shot mul­ti­ple times.

A mo­tive is yet to be de­ter­mined.


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