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Friday, July 11, 2025

Father and son shot dead while sleeping

by

Joel Julien
1698 days ago
20201115
Che Lewis

Che Lewis

A fa­ther and son were shot dead as they slept on their beds at their Diego Mar­tin home on Sat­ur­day night.

Dead are Ad­lai Lewis, 49, and his 29-year-old son Che.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 11.20 pm on Sat­ur­day at First Trace, Bagatelle Road, Diego Mar­tin.

This dou­ble mur­der comes four months af­ter Ad­lai’s step­son, Abisa­ja John, 45, was shot dead un­der eeri­ly sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances.

John, bet­ter known by his alias Food, was shot dead in bed at First Trace, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin in Ju­ly.

His five-year-old son who was spend­ing the night by him dis­cov­ered his dead body.

On Sat­ur­day night John’s step-fa­ther and broth­er were al­so killed in their beds.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports Lewis and his son were asleep when gun­men stormed their home and opened fire.

The gun­men then es­caped.

Res­i­dents in the area con­tact­ed po­lice and when the of­fi­cers ar­rived the duo were found dead in their beds with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds about their bod­ies.

Pho­tos and video footage of the two blood­ied bod­ies were even­tu­al­ly post­ed on sev­er­al so­cial me­dia sites with some users say­ing to do so was dis­re­spect­ful to the griev­ing fam­i­lies.

A rel­a­tive who spoke to Guardian me­dia said it was hurt­ful to see their rel­a­tives plas­tered across so­cial me­dia.

She de­scribed Ad­lai as a “qui­et and hum­ble man.”

No mo­tive has been de­ter­mined for the killing yet but in­ves­ti­ga­tors are look­ing at the pos­si­ble link to John’s mur­der.

The mur­der count cur­rent­ly stands at 354.


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