100 murders

Three of the murders occurred in Chaguanas and investigators have linked them to an ongoing war between Enterprise gangs, Unruly Isis and Rasta City Muslims.

The fourth man was gunned down in Diego Martin.

Hours after 22-year-old Terrance “Boomy” Patrick was shot dead in Enterprise, Chaguanas at about 4 pm, his friend Christian Mohammed, 23, who was wounded in the shooting died at hospital early yesterday morning.

In the interval, at about 11 pm, Kareem Gomes was gunned down near his home at Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas.

Detailing Friday’s events in the borough, police said Patrick and three friends, Mohammed, Candice James and Daniel Tannis, were liming at a house on the corner of John and School Streets, Enterprise when four men got out of a white Nissan Tiida and opened fire. Patrick was pronounced dead on arrival at the Chaguanas Health Centre while the others were transferred to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope.

Police said Mohammed, of Cunupia, succumbed to gunshot wounds at about 12.15 am yesterday.

James and Tannis remained warded in stable condition under police guard yesterday.

Three men, reported to be in their 20s, have been detained for the Enterprise murders. One of them has been identified as a relative of murdered community activist Selwyn “Robo Cop” Alexis.

Investigators believe the men are also responsible for Gomes’ murder.

They report that Gomes, of Jade Avenue, Edinburgh 500, was at a neighbour’s house when a gunman walked up and began shooting. While his neighbour escaped unhurt, Gomes was not so lucky as he was shot several times and died on the spot.

Police said the arrest of the three suspects is a major breakthrough in their investigations of shootings in Chaguanas, which they believe are reprisals for the murder of Alexis last year.

“There is a lot of grief in the community,” a police source said.

Police also disclosed Patrick’s brother was shot and killed two years ago.

Edinburgh 500 residents yesterday called for the return of regular police patrols which they claimed stopped a month ago because the police did not have enough vehicles.

And in the west, 23-year-old Randy Alexander died undergoing treatment after he was shot in the gallery of a neighbour’s home in Diego Martin.

Police report that at about 9.30 pm, Alexander, of Farm Road off Richplain, Diego Martin, and a neighbour were liming in her gallery.

She left him, went inside and then heard loud gunshots. When the shooting stopped, the woman returned outside and found Alexander slumped on a chair, bleeding from small holes about his body. Police said Alexander had been involved in criminal activities since he was a teenager and, just four years ago, he was shot in his right foot which had to be amputated.

Alexander was taken to the St James District Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Investigations into his murder continue.

There were also unconfirmed reports of the discovery of a man’s body in St Joseph yesterday.