The police have not yet made any arrests in relation to the last Thursday’s drive-by shooting in Sophia during which Kevin Inniss was shot dead and his friend injured.
However, Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine yesterday told reporters that one of the persons who fled the scene when the shooting started had been charged with trafficking in narcotics during 2012 and was sentenced but he was released on bail pending an appeal.
“While out on bail, he has been charged on three other occasions, in two instances with narcotics related offences and he’s still out on bail,” Ramnarine stressed.
The incident occurred last Thursday evening when the occupants of a car opened fire on a group of men including Inniss and his friend Shane Carter. They were both rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where Inniss died shortly after; Carter was admitted before being discharged the following morning.
The police in a statement on the shooting had said that a dark coloured vehicle drove up and three masked and armed men exited, approached the group and began discharging their guns, hitting Inniss and Carter. The men then jumped back into the vehicle and sped away in a western direction.
A friend of the two men said he had left the yard mere minutes before the shooting.
“I de just left there, ya know, to take my cousin home and that’s what happened. It was nuff of them in there but everybody scatter after them men start spray up,” the man, who did not want to be named, said. He said from what was related to him, the men exited the vehicle with the intention to kill every person in the yard.
“If you see how they shoot up the place and just spray all over. They de want to hit everybody with how they shoot up,” he added.
Ten .32 spent shells and fragmentation from 13 warheads were found at the scene.
Inniss’s relatives had said it was related to them that he had an argument with a man who had threatened to kill him weeks ago.
