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Businesswoman killed execution-style
Police search for spent shells at the scene.
A city businesswoman was gunned down last night in what investigators believe is an execution.
Dead is 42-year-old Leriea Bristol of 285 Well Road, North Ruimveldt, who was shot dead just as she was about to enter her yard shortly before 22:00 hours.
She received a single gunshot wound behind the left ear.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that Bristol, who operates a cycle store on Robb Street, had just returned from church and was opening her gate when a gunman who appeared to be waiting in the dark confronted her.
The woman’s niece who resides with her in the North Ruimveldt house told police that she was inside when she heard about three gunshots.
She said when she looked outside she saw Bristol, a mother of one, slumped on the bridge near the gate.
The fatally wounded businesswoman was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
While the dead woman’s relatives were too distraught to speak to members of the media last night, investigators are convinced that Bristol was executed, since none of the jewellery she was wearing at the time was removed from her body.
At the scene, several neighbours had gathered but none of them could give an account of what transpired.
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