A 36-year-old man died at the Georgetown Public Hospital last night after he was shot three times.
Dexter Griffith of East Ruimveldt was shot once to his left thigh, once to his face and once to his chest which exited through his back. The chest wound proved to be fatal.
His mother Loverne Griffith told Stabroek News she was surprised to learn that her son had been shot as he had no problems with anyone.
“He ain’t got no problem with anybody,” she repeated.
The shocked woman explained that she was in her home when she heard “gunshots and when I went out I hear that it was my son who get shoot.”
Griffith’s is the latest in a recent series of murders in the East Ruimveldt community known as ‘Warlock.’.
On August 31, Kellon Hinds, 22, was shot dead in East Ruimveldt in what was believed to have been a reprisal killing. Shawn Barrow, 23, was earlier this month charged with his
urder and remanded to prison.
Hinds had been held by police as a suspect in the murder of Shawn’s brother, Sherwyne Barrow, 24, who was killed in the community in May this year. The 24-year-old father of three of 50 East La Penitence was riddled with bullets when at least three gunmen opened fire on him as he sat outside a shop in ‘Warlock.’
According to reports, he had been caught up in an ongoing feud and had been lured to the area under the pretext that a peace deal was going to be made.
