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Apr 16, 2013 News
Within the past 24 hours there have been two reported shooting incidents in the South/North Ruimveldt community. Unfortunately the second incident has resulted in the death of a popular sports enthusiast.
Some time close to midnight on Sunday, 52 year-old Orin Joseph a domino fanatic was pronounced dead by doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital who were feverishly trying to save his life. Joseph sustained three gunshot wounds after he was reportedly attacked and robbed just outside of his Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt Park home.
Faye Joseph, the dead man’s wife, who was overcome by grief, recalled the last few minutes with her husband.
Mrs. Joseph said that she and her husband recently restarted their Blue Bird Domino club. “Once we have domino competition he would normally remove the cars from under the house and park them up the street to facilitate the people.”
Mrs. Joseph recalled that when the competition was over at about 23:00 hours, herself and two other persons were tidying up while her husband went to bring back the vehicles to the house.
“I was sweeping and the two other persons were packing up the chairs and we heard like four gunshots. Right away I heard my husband calling my name, so I turn to the two people there and I tell them like Orin get shoot.”
According to Mrs. Joseph she immediately began running towards her husband with the two other persons by her side.
“I saw the door on his car open and the lights on so I thought he got shot in the car but then somebody call me back and say look he on a neighbour bridge,”.
Fighting to hold back tears, Mrs. Joseph recalled her husband pleading with her to loosen his belt from around his waist.
The woman said she did as her husband requested while her friends assisted in placing him in a vehicle. By that time other persons had converged on the scene and a police officer who lives nearby drove the wounded Joseph to the Hospital.
Mrs. Joseph said that when they arrived at the hospital a nurse asked her to help turn her husband on the bed and she noticed about three gunshot injuries.
“Within 30 minutes after arriving at the hospital they told me my husband was dead.”
According to the grieving widow she believes that her husband was the victim of a brazen robbery which was committed by persons who knew his movements. Mrs. Joseph told this publication that persons saw two men fleeing from where her husband fell.
“He had on a gold band and a gold chain and it look like they snatch his chain but when they realize that it was silver and gold they left it because when we picked him up his chain just fell off”.
While the woman is pleading for justice she is also calling on the police to carry out a thorough investigation into her husband’s death.
Only on Saturday morning another man, Desmond Marcus, was shot in his head in the vicinity of National Avenue and Caneview Avenue following a confrontation with a man who was in his minibus and who refused to pay. Marcus’s injury was not life threatening.
This recent incident has raised some concern among residents of the community who say there seems to be an upsurge in criminal activities in the area despite the fact that a police outpost was set up in that location close to a year ago.
Hence residents are calling for increased police patrol.
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