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Quarrel ends in Festival City shooting death
(By Mondale Smith)
Residents of Buggy Peak Street, Festival City, are stumped following the shooting death of one of their neighbours yesterday.
Dead is father of one, Christopher Wharton, called Tapps and ‘Chrissy’ of 1960 Buggy Peak
Dead: Christopher Wharton aka Tapps and Chrissy
Street Festival City.
Neighbours said the 41 year old man who was shot to his hand, left butt and groin area identified his killers.
They said Wharton, who moved to the abandoned house about three years ago, was a very helpful person in the community and a caring father to his five-year-old son. His son, Neshaun, was hit on his left leg by one of the six shots fired by the men who arrived at the man’s home and left on bicycles.
A neighbour named Tracy said that she was watching Judge Judy about 16:50 hrs when she heard what sounded like fire crackers. “I didn’t take it for nothing. Then I hear hollering and when I come outside I see Chrissy on the ground.”
The man died at the Georgetown Public Hospital at about 19:30hrs. He had actually collected his child from nursery school a little before he was shot.
One of his relatives who lived a few doors away told this publication that Wharton and the guys had a disagreement at Last Entrance after which he rode home with his son.
Witnesses recalled seeing a man and his nephew of the same community loudly expressing their intention to ‘chop up’ Wharton.
“They go home at he and one went up the step and one stayed at the bottom. He was inside and when they fire the first shot he was walking to them. And they fire some more,” one man said.
Another neighbour said that based on what he saw “Chrissy came out and was arguing with them. Then was shots pun shots and I run out. He didn’t bleed out much and he was asking to be turned over after he got shot then a neighbor took him to hospital.”
I was sleeping and I took the sounds for firecrackers. Then I hear he screaming and then he started to holler for Tracy…When I run to me veranda I see two men jump on two bicycles, buss two shots in the air and ride away.”
The shooters took the man’s cellular phone and according to several persons at the scene he called the names of his killers as “Junnie and he uncle, Sean Snagga Poose from the back of North.”
Shumane, the mother of Wharton’s child was devastated. His relatives said, “He got he ways, but he was everybody friend.”
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