A 24-year-old miner was beaten and fatally shot on Wednesday night at Mahdia, in Region Eight, and the police are on the hunt for his killer.
Dead is Akeem Caesar, of Linden, who police say was shot once to one of his legs and gun-butted during an attack at Blackwater Backdam, Konawaruk, Mahdia.
His attacker, a security guard who is known by the alias “Tall Man,” fled the scene and was yet to be apprehended up to yesterday.
According to police, Caesar and his friends were at a shop drinking when an argument ensued between him and another man. This resulted in a physical encounter before they were eventually separated.
The police explained that Ceaser was standing on the road conversing with the man he had been fighting with when he was approached by another man, who was armed with a gun. “The gunman then allegedly shot the victim (Caesar) once in the left foot, gun butted him in the head and fled the scene,” the police noted.
Caesar was taken to the Mahdia District Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
