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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Landlord killed weeks after attack

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1992 days ago
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Two weeks af­ter a house owned by Ken­neth Mail­lard was fire­bombed, the 64-year-old was gunned down in Tu­na­puna on Wednes­day evening.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, short­ly af­ter 7 pm, Mail­lard was sit­ting near the gate of an apart­ment com­plex he man­aged at cor­ner Ali and Cen­te­nary Streets when a lone gun­man walked up to him and shot him sev­er­al times. The gun­man then es­caped.

Up­on hear­ing the gun­shots the ten­ants of the com­plex called the po­lice, how­ev­er, up­on the po­lice’s ar­rival, Mail­lard was found dead on the scene.

Mail­lard’s rel­a­tives, who spoke to the me­dia at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James on Thurs­day said they were left baf­fled as to why any­one would want to hurt or kill him.

Iron­i­cal­ly, at the time he was killed his sis­ter had just sent a What’s App mes­sage to him want­i­ng to dis­cuss how “vi­o­lent this world has be­come” not know­ing that her broth­er was just gunned down.

Rel­a­tives said Mail­lard had no chil­dren and was nev­er mar­ried and had al­ways been a land­lord.

They de­scribed him as a “de­cent man, with a great per­son­al­i­ty.”

At the scene of the crime, the apart­ment com­plex, about sev­en Cuban na­tion­als came out to speak to the Guardian Me­dia.

They all said they are con­fused as to why their land­lord was killed.

“We rent­ed from him. He was seat­ed by the gate and we heard gun­shots ‘pow pow’ I was cook­ing and when I came out I see him ly­ing there dead, “ one of the el­der Cuban women said.

A Cuban man added: “We see two men run up to him but we don’t know why.”

The Cubans said Mail­lard treat­ed them well and he would be missed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.


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