A Da Silva Street, Kitty man was last evening fatally shot in the head, following a confrontation with two men at his home.
Dead is Brian Chung, called ‘Chungy,’ 41, of Lot 79, Da Silva Street, Newtown Kitty. The man sustained a single gunshot wound to the forehead.
According to reports, shortly after 7:30 pm last night, two men on a Honda motorcycle rode into the man’s yard and shortly after an argument erupted between the men and Chung, a gunshot was heard. Soon after, the men were seen riding away from the scene wearing masks. Chung was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to a neighbour, she and her family were watching a primetime television programme around7:30 last night, when they heard what sounded like a gunshot. A motorcycle was then heard racing away from the scene.
Another neighbour noted that the two men were seen running out of the yard, one clutching a bag while his accomplice appeared to have been fumbling with a gun in his hand. “These men went in the yard and like after some talking we hear a gunshot,” a young man at the scene noted. He said the men’s faces were fully covered as they left the yard and they later raced out of Da Silva Street, in the direction of Vlissingen Road on a ‘CG’ motorcycle.
A neighbour noted that shortly after the gunmen rode away from the scene, persons ran to see what had transpired at Chung’s home and he was seen “fighting up” on the blood stained floor outside his door.
The man noted that the gunmen “nervously” scrambled onto the motorcycle, which was parked a short distance into the passageway leading to Chung’s bottom flat home at the back of a yard. Chung lived alone at the bottom flat while his sister lived in the upper flat of the house.
According to reports, Chung has had previous brushes with the law and had matters pending in court, which were drug related. A “Say no to drugs” poster was conspicuously displayed on the outer wall of his home.
In January 2009, Chung was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a ganja possession charge and was remanded to prison. He was charged with having in his possession 154 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.
Persons at the scene told this newspaper last evening that several days ago the man was involved in a “drug-related” argument with a woman and she later threatened to harm him. They noted that the man was long suspected to be a supplier of illicit substances and persons would frequent his yard for this purpose.
His sister was taken away by the police for questioning last evening as the lawmen conducted investigations at the scene.
