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Trevor Rose murder… Investigation appears to be at a standstill
His amazing and colourful creations with its explosion of colour and fanfare which always had the “wow effect” were certainly missed by many yesterday at the annual Mashramani celebration.
Dead: Trevor Rose
The absence of Trevor Rose’s designs certainly left a dent in the fashion industry, and several companies that always contracted him for their Mashramani costumes were forced to find a replacement at the last moment following his sudden death almost a month ago.
On January 26 last, the popular Mashramani Costume Designer and Events Coordinator was shot dead execution style in the back seat of a Toyota 212 and police are yet to charge anyone. To date, investigators have reportedly worked on a number of leads but none of them has been able to definitively point to who was responsible for Rose’s death.
Sources close to the investigation informed this newspaper that they are still doing some “groundwork”.
Days after the execution-style killing of the 33-year-old designer, police had held two persons.
However, investigators were forced to release the men after 72 hours because the two survivors in the shooting were unable to identify either one of them as the shooter.
Rose, a father of eight, was fatally shot while travelling in a taxi with the mother of one of his children, Latoya Towler, at the Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
During the execution-style killing of Rose, Towler was shot to the buttocks and the taxi driver Troy Nieunkerk was shot in the left shoulder.
Rose was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) while Nieunkrk and Towler were hospitalized at the same medical institution for a few days.
Nieunkerk, who lives in Diamond, EBD reportedly, told investigators that he was heading home and offered Rose and Towler a drop to Eccles. While at Eccles, a tinted car, which was following the trio from Agricola, pulled up alongside Nieunkerk’s vehicle and asked why he was driving so recklessly.
Kaieteur News was further told that the driver of the tinted car parked his vehicle in front of Nieunkerk’s car, exited and opened fire, killing Rose on the spot.
Two weeks ago, Rose’s mother, Lillian Browne had told this newspaper that ever since her son was gunned down, investigators have not visited her once to take a statement.
“They (police) have never been here, they never asked me anything. The police never came once. They just ignored that I am Trevor Rose’s mother. I thought that maybe they might want to establish a timeline to see what time he left home and what was his movement for that day. I could have at least given them some information on what time he left home and if anybody called him on his phone,” the mother had related.
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