Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Man killed execution-style in Albouystown
– Brother died in similar circumstances four years ago
By Romila Boodram
Up to press time, investigators were following leads as to who would blatantly walk into a crowded yard at Curtis Street, Albouystown at around 01:00hrs yesterday and gun down football player, Orvin Milton.
The 30-year-old North East La Penitence resident, who is a part-time taxi driver, was shot to the head by a lone gunman who escaped through Le Repentir Cemetery after discharging three rounds at his victim.
Milton collapsed and according to eyewitnesses, his brain was scattered on the muddy dam. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was pronounced dead.
Dead: Orvin Milton
Police in a press release said that Milton was in a yard at Albouystown when a man approached him and discharged a round which hit him to his body. The shooter then escaped.
Sources close to the investigation told this publication that they have the names of three persons who they believe might have had something to do with Milton’s death.
Asked whether the shooting could have been as a result of a deal went wrong, a police source said that investigators believe that vendetta is the possible motive.
At the scene yesterday, Kaieteur News was told that the father of four was drinking and playing a game of cards with a group of men when a man walked up behind him and said, “I looking for you (expletive) long” and opened fire.
A man who claims to be an eyewitness to the shooting opined that Milton met his death in a “jokey way.”
“Everybody thought it was a joke. This man (shooter) just walk up behind he dressed in a hoodie and mask, say those five words and shoot he. People thought it was a prank, because who would walk into a crowded yard and kill somebody and it’s not like there was more than one shooter to watch he (lone shooter’s) back. We thought it was somebody joking around with a mask” the eyewitness said.
At Milton’s home yesterday, his sister, Abby Weekes said that she was at her home when her mother telephoned her and asked if she heard what had happened to her brother.
“I said no and she said that my brother’s child mother called and tell her that Orvin get shoot and he was at the hospital so I asked her if she didn’t call him home early and she said that she called him at 12:45 hrs on Wednesday and asked when he coming home and he tell her that he coming just now and hang up,” the sister added.
Dead: Milton’s brother, Vibert Weekes
She said that her mother informed her that about 20 minutes after she talked to her son, she received a call from his fiancée who informed her that her son was at the hospital.
“She (her mother) come in a car and pick me up and then all of us went to the hospital. When we reach and went inside the room he was dead already,” Weekes recounted.
According to the woman, her brother who played football for Western Tigers was scheduled to play this coming Sunday. “He supposed to play and now he dead.”
Family members of the dead man are calling on the police to solve this case, since the family received no justice when Milton’s brother, Vibert Weekes, was gunned down some four years ago.
Weekes was killed a short distance away from the popular “Red Dragon” night club on Robb Street on January 09, 2010 by a lone shooter who was reportedly dressed in female attire.
“We got to get justice for Orvin because we got none for Vibert. The police need to do their work and ensure the suspect is captured,” Abby Weekes exclaimed.
Meanwhile, the recently launched “Impact Albouystown Project” came under some criticism yesterday with residents questioning, “Why have 20 policemen walking during the days and none in the nights.”
According to one resident, “during the day, when you look into the various streets in Albouystown, you seeing three to four policemen, and none of them can be seen in the nights.”
“During the day, you have petty crimes happening, but if you look back most people getting shoot during the nights, because most gambling and so happen when people come home from work,” the resident said.
Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken, during a brief telephone interview, said that police patrols were always present in the area during the nights but not on foot.
“We always have police patrolling the area, but as of today (yesterday) we have put ranks to patrol the area on foot.”
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