Two men die in separate incidents
Security guard knifed, robber I found dead
By Samantha Alleyne
The police are investigating a toting on Saturday night and a stabbing early yesterday morning which left two men lead.
I, Fifty-one-year-old security guard Roy Singh, of 52 West Ruimveldt Estate Housing Scheme, was found dead at his Mandela Avenue workplace with a stab wound to his leek. A twenty-four-year-old man, whose name police gave as Timothy Sampson but whose relatives said his name s Shawn St Hill, was found dead with gunshot wounds at the corner of Avenue of the Republic and Charlotte Street. According to the police, St Hill whose address was given as South Sophia, was among a group of men who attacked a policeman and two robbery victims.
It is unclear who fired the shot/s that killed St Hill.
Singh, a father of two, was employed as a security guard at Agri Parts Machinery & Services on Mandela Avenue. One of his two sons, Ravindra Singh, told this newspaper that the family was awakened at around 2 am yesterday morning by the police along with a relative of his father’s employer who informed them that their father had been killed.