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Apr 02, 2016 News
-cops detain suspect
Just three days after gunmen killed army Lance Corporal, Kevon Payne, gunmen on a CG motorcycle
executed another Charlestown resident in the same street.
Gladstone Taylor, 54, of Lot 43, Adelaide Street, Charlestown, was shot at least four times in the vicinity of Adelaide and Sussex Streets, around 21.00 hrs yesterday.
A senior police official said that police have detained a suspect, but declined to speculate whether the execution-style slaying was linked to the killing of Lance Corporal Payne.
According to reports, Taylor, known as ‘Tuffy,’ and the father of five, was sitting at the corner of Adelaide and Sussex Streets, when two men on a CG motorcycle rode up and shot him several times.
The killers reportedly escaped through Adelaide Street.
An aunt of the slain man said that she was at home in Albouystown, when she heard a sound that she assumed was made by a firecracker.
She then headed outside to play a game of bingo when someone rushed up to her and told her that her nephew, ‘Tuffy’, had been killed.
By the time she arrived at the scene, police had already taken the body to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
While relatives described Taylor as a peaceful individual, one relative said that individuals had been sending threats to him. The relative said that the threats began about a week ago.
Asked if she believed that Taylor and the Lance Corporal’s murder were connected, the relative said: “It linked, is a war.”
But she said that Taylor did not appear to take the threats seriously.
Police confirmed last night that one of Gladstone’s sons was charged last year for the September 4, 2015 murder of East Ruimveldt resident, Senassie Lewis, who was gunned down in front of the popular Ghetto Flex nightspot, located at James and Albouys Streets, Albouystown. A second man was also charged.
Last night’s slaying is the fourth execution-style killing in recent weeks.
The other victims are O’Riley Small, 31, who was riddled with bullets just as he entered his Smyth Street home.
The second victim was murder accused Steve Mohamed, who was riddled with bullets and dumped in Le Repentir Cemetery.
Shortly after, minibus driver Elvin Lorrimer succumbed from bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen who ambushed him near the Linden bus park.
That was followed by the killing last Tuesday of Lance Corporal Payne.
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