SASCHA WIL­SON

Guayagua­yare watch­man Mark Christo­pher was fa­tal­ly shot a short dis­tance from his work­place on Tues­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, around 9 pm, Christo­pher, 36, of New­lands, was walk­ing with a fe­male se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer along Guayagua­yare Road. The woman left Christo­pher and he con­tin­ued walk­ing to­wards his work­place at La Sa­vanne Cir­cu­lar.

Po­lice said Christo­pher was ac­cost­ed by a lone gun­man who shot him at close range. The sus­pect ran off as Christo­pher slumped to the ground.

Res­i­dents called the po­lice af­ter ob­serv­ing Christo­pher bleed­ing on the road. He was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival to dis­trict health fa­cil­i­ty.

No mo­tive has been dis­closed for the killing. A par­ty of of­fi­cers in­clud­ing In­sp Williams, and Sgt Harp­er of the Ma­yaro CID and East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force vis­it­ed the scene. Five spent shells were re­trieved from the crime scene.

Rhon­dor Dowlat

Diego man gunned down

A man was killed while in the kitchen of his home on Tues­day night.

His killer re­mains a mys­tery, ac­cord­ing to po­lice.

It was re­port­ed that short­ly af­ter 10 pm rel­a­tives of Nathaniel Rus­sell heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions while at their home at Hold­er Lane, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin.

They lat­er found Rus­sell, 28, slumpe­don the kitchen floor bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

He was tak­en to the St James Med­ical Cen­tre where he died.

In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers said it is un­sure as to if Rus­sell's shoot­er was in the house at the time or whether the shoot­er shot him while out­side the house.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Derek Achong

Waller­field man ID killers be­fore dy­ing

North­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice are search­ing for a group of men from

Waller­field who al­leged­ly beat a neigh­bour to death on Tues­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 1 pm on Tues­day, po­lice of­fi­cers were on

pa­trol along Brazil Road, Waller­field, when they saw a bleed­ing man

ly­ing at the side of the road.

The vic­tim, who was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Ecliff Jen­ning, 49, of Ja­cob

Hill, Waller­field, was able to iden­ti­fy his at­tack­ers to po­lice while

en-route to hos­pi­tal.

He died short­ly af­ter ar­riv­ing at the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

The sus­pects had not been ar­rest­ed up to late yes­ter­day, but

in­ves­ti­ga­tors said ar­rests are im­mi­nent as they are well known to

po­lice.

The three killings pushed the mur­der toll to 91