Man riddled with bullets

While police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding what pathologists have described as an execution, detectives have received information the killing may have been carried by two men.

Pathologists at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday retrieved 30 shotgun pellets and several rounds of 9 mm ammunition from the man’s body. Newsday was told that the majority of rounds were found in Muhammad’s head and right arm, leaving pathologists to determine his death was an execution.

The trajectory of the bullets suggested that he was shot from two different angles.

Thanks to the determinations of the pathologists, police are now working on the theory that Muhammad was intercepted by the gunmen, one armed with a pistol and another armed with a shotgun, and flanked while he was still sitting in his vehicle, then shot multiple times. Police sources told Newsday that officers of the Central Division Task Force responded to reports of loud explosions being heard on Clark Road, Charlieville at about 8.26 pm on Monday.

When officers responded, they discovered a grey Mitsubishi Lancer facing in a north-eastern direction in the middle of the roadway, with extensive damage to the front right side of the bumper and fender of the vehicle. As lawmen approached the vehicle, they discovered Muhammad’s body slumped over on the driver’s side of the car, bearing multiple gunshot wounds. He was clad in a white Thobe (male Muslim garb) and a pair of slippers. The scene was cordoned off and Cpl Harripersad and WPC Ransome of the Homicide Investigations Bureau visited the scene. Muhammad’s wife, who asked not to be identified, yesterday told Newsday that she did not want the media meddling in her family’s affairs. “I do not want any of this,” said his wife. “I just want to bury my husband in peace” She described him as a private person.

Central Division detectives are continuing investigations.