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Mashramani is over for me – says Trevor Rose’s mother
– “The police know exactly who killed my son”
Mashramani is that time of the year when you take a break from your everyday life and shake the stress away through the streets of Georgetown during the annual parade.
Dead: Mashramani Costume Designer, Trevor Rose
There are a number of local designers who rose to fame from designing Mashramani costumes. One such designer was 33-year-old Trevor Rose, who was known for his explosion of colours and fanfare.
Sadly, this will be the second Mashramani without Rose and his “magical” costumes.
His sudden death certainly left a dent in the fashion industry.
On January 26, 2014, the popular Mashramani costume designer and Events Coordinator was shot dead, execution style in the back seat of a Toyota 212.
For his mother, Lillian Browne, Mashramani celebrations died along with her son.
“For me, Mash is over. I wouldn’t be going out on the road, period.”
Rose’s mother related that there was a time when she used to go out on the streets to just look at her son’s work.
Commenting on the fact that police are still to charge anyone for her son’s death, the still grieving mother said that she has no justice to get from the police.
“The police know exactly who killed my child. The man that killed Trevor is a licenced firearm holder, but he did not use his weapon to kill my son. He used another gun but his weapon somehow fell at the scene,” Browne stated.
She alleged that, ‘through the grapevine’, she found out that Rose’s attacker is known to the police.
“The police were saying that the gun they found belongs to my son but I know my son didn’t have a gun,” she said.
Rose’s mother is convinced that she has no justice to receive for her son’s death.
Asked if she has any idea why her son was killed, Browne said that she heard that Rose, a father of eight, had an affair with a married woman. It was the woman’s husband who allegedly killed him, she said.
A Banks DIH costume designed by Trevor Rose and his then wife, Michele Cole.
The 33-year-old was fatally shot at the Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) while travelling in a taxi with the mother of one of his children, Latoya Towler.
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 Nieunkerk and Towler were hospitalized at the same medical institution for a few days.
Recalling what happened that night, Nieunkerk 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 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.
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.
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