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Oct 13, 2008 News
– killers flee in victim’s car
A 26-year-old woman was gunned down outside her Lot 78 David Street Kitty home shortly after 22:00 hrs last night by two men who escaped in her car.
Alecia Foster, an environmental officer employed with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was shot in the face by one of the gunmen, who eyewitnesses described as being “tall, slim and wearing glasses”, just as she had parked in the family’s driveway.
She died some ten minutes after arriving at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
After shooting Foster, the gunman with the spectacles calmly entered his victim’s gold-coloured Toyota Corolla, PHH 2253, and escaped east along David Street.
His accomplice reportedly escaped in another car that the killers had apparently used to trail their victim.
A relative said that Alecia, accompanied by a 17-year-old sister, had attended a wake in Bent Street and had just arrived home when the brutal attack occurred.
Kaieteur News understands that the gunmen, who had trailed the sisters, struck while the younger sister disembarked to open the gate for Alecia to drive in.
According to reports, while the sister was at the gate, the two men disembarked from their vehicle, came over to the sisters, and ordered Alecia to exit the car.
“She say ‘for what,’ and they go to hold her and she said, ‘please don’t hold me,’ and then a shot went off,” a source said.
After shooting Foster, the men reportedly dragged the mortally injured woman out of her vehicle and drove away.
James Foster, the victim’s father, told Kaieteur News that he was inside his house when he heard a gunshot.
Foster said that the “persistent ringing” of his buzzer further alerted that something was amiss.
The victim’s father said that he immediately rushed outside in time to see someone driving east along David Street in his daughter’s car, while Alecia lay motionless on the ground. He said that a police vehicle was passing at the same time and the ranks assisted him in taking his daughter, who was still alive, to the GPHC.
Hospital sources said that the victim arrived at around 22:05 and succumbed some ten minutes later.
The grieving father was unable to say whether robbery was the motive for the killing, but stated that his daughter had no enemies that he was aware of.
The brutal killing has pushed this year’s murder statistics to 129, and occurred even as the nation appeared to be experiencing a lull in violent crime.
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