Teen gunned down in Morvant gang war

A Morvant teenager is the country’s latest murder victim. The toll now stands at 187. Devon Phillip, 17, alias “Clad,” was shot seven times Monday night on Garrick Road, a short distance from his Small Street home at Second Caledonia, while on his way to visit his girlfriend in Curepe. On hearing the shots, his brother Jason and mother Anita were told by a resident that someone had been shot around the corner, and they rushed to the scene where they found Phillip gasping for breath in a pool of blood. They flagged down a van and rushed the victim to the Mt Hope Medical Sciences Complex. He was pronounced dead on arrival. Phillip was shot three times in the leg, once in the chest and three times in the head.

Eyewitnesses told Newsday they saw two men run up to Phillip and fire a shot which knocked him down. They then stood over the victim, who was writhing in pain on the ground, and pumped several more shots before running off. Relatives and police confirm the killing had to do with the victim’s association with a known gang in the area which is “at war” with another nearby gang. When Newsday visited Dovin’s home, Errol and Anita Phillip, his father and mother, described Devon, the first of three children, as a quiet boy, who did not reveal much about his life. They said they did not know if he had enemies.