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Nov 01, 2011 News
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Three children, including a six-month old boy, are now fatherless, following the slaying of Guyana-born 34-year-old Mark Daniel as he played draughts in a shop at Gray’s Farm on Saturday night.
The incident, which took place on Love Lace Road, unfolded around 9.15 pm when, according to lawmen, “a man about 5’4”, dark in complexion, and wearing a white hood and a mask, entered the shop … and shot him.”
The assailant reportedly fled on foot. A police press release did not identify which part of Daniel’s body received the shots but residents said he was hit in the head and chest. Other reports indicate that bullets pierced the man’s arms as well.
An eyewitness told The Daily Observer that “he was on the ground bleeding badly but still alive when the police arrived about 10 minutes after the shooting.”
Daniel, the ninth murder victim for the year, was pronounced dead by the district doctor.
Daniel’s wife, with whom he has two children, is said to be doing poorly since she got word of her husband’s death.
The Guyanese man, a fisherman by trade, is said to have lived in Antigua for more than 20 years. He was remembered by one friend as “a good guy, very generous.”
Up to press time lawmen said “they were still following leads.”
At the time of his death the fisherman was on a $10,000 bail bond for his alleged involvement in smuggling a Vincentian man into the country. That trial was scheduled for January 2012.
Daniel was also the virtual complainant in a kidnapping matter for which the accused is on remand. (Antigua Observer)
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