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Police arrest three for businesswoman’s murder

May 07, 2015 News

Three men were reportedly arrested and are in police custody for the murder of Linden businesswoman, Shevon Gordon.
Forty-five-year-old Gordon, of Block 22, Wismar, Linden, was shot by two armed men a stone’s throw from her residence on April 4, last.
According to a police media release, the men were arrested on Tuesday, and are in custody assisting police with the investigations.
Gordon was reportedly shot after she resisted two bandits who had accosted her after she stepped out of her truck on the night of Saturday April 4. They subsequently took away a bag containing money.
During the ensuing melee her 23-year-old son, Devon, was shot to the right leg after he ran to her rescue.
He was subsequently hospitalized at the Linden Hospital Complex. His mother was however pronounced dead on arrival at the same institution.
Elon Gordon, the woman’s husband, had said that his wife had just returned from selling beverages when she was attacked by the bandits, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
“My wife was returning home, with the driver, who usually takes her out in the mornings and then bring her back in the evenings. They had returned about six-thirty, but they would normally go up the road, then turn back to park, because the larger truck was in the place where they would usually park,” he said
“I was fixing the other truck, when I hear me son shout like three times, so I realized it had to be something serious. I left what I was doing and was making my way towards where they were when I heard a shot, then I see me wife fall. At the same time, my son tried to apprehend the guy but they run, and we keep running behind them, and all the while they firing shots.”
He explained that when his son told him that he was shot, he told him to relax and he continued to pursue the gunmen to see if he could recognize any of them.
However his efforts were futile, since the place was already dark.
“I couldn’t see their faces but I know is young fellas under twenty,” Elon Gordon said.
Shevon Gordon was later rushed to the Linden Hospital complex, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Elon Gordon said that he had been married to Shevon Gordon for 23 years and together they had managed their beverage business for about 20 years.
He noted that it was the second time that bandits had robbed them, in four attempts over the years.
“This is the second time that they get through, because the other times we put up strong resistance, and so they went away empty-handed. But I never expected this, is a complete shock to me.”
Patrick Gordon, the eldest of the Gordons six children, exclaimed, “They didn’t have to shoot my mother. They already had the money. Why they had to shoot her?” he complained bitterly.
The young man said that he was in Georgetown when he got the phone call from his brother who had been shot.
“I immediately travelled to Linden, only to see my mother lying dead at the hospital.”
His father Elon Gordon is appealing for more lights to be installed in the area, as he said that the spot where his wife was shot was quite dark, even though it was just after six.
The distraught husband opined that roadblocks should have been set up by the police in order to apprehend the bandits, whom he claimed could have escaped to Georgetown or Mabura.
“All they (police) did was come and question us and retrieve some spent shells.”

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