A 37-year-old man was gunned down early yesterday morning at ‘B’ Field, Sophia, after a simmering argument over the positioning of a horse.
Andrev Kenyatta Easton, a lumberyard worker, was murdered just around 8.45 am, a day after there was an argument between him and the suspect about where Easton should leave his horse.
According to Easton’s common-law wife, Samantha Shelto, the argument took place yesterday after the suspect’s girlfriend confronted Easton and asked him to move his horse. “Well yesterday… [The suspect’s] girlfriend come out and start cussing and [Easton] tell she he ain’t got time with she and she seh she going and bring she man…she man come out and pull out a gun pon he and everybody tell he just walk away so he come away,” she explained.
Easton, the father of a nine-month-old child, then left to make a report to the station after the confrontation took place.
Shelto said she was also made aware of the threats to her husband by the suspect, who is now on the run. “Since yesterday he showing me the gun and telling me ‘I gon’ shoot ya man, he playing he is a bad boy’ and them things,” she noted.
Shelto went on to explain that even though Easton decided to walk away from the situation, he was still murdered while carrying out his everyday activities. “This morning he go fuh feed the horse them… and the boy shoot he”, she said.
The suspect was only identified by relatives of the deceased as ‘Keron.’
Regional Commander of Region 4(a) Phillip Azore told Stabroek News that a preliminary examination of the body showed three wounds, which appear to be bullet wounds. According to Azore, two of the wounds were located in the area of the left shoulder and one in the upper left of Easton’s back.
A relative of the now dead man described him as a usually peaceful and hardworking individual.
An investigation into the killing is currently ongoing.
