TWO MEN MURDERED

BLOOD flowed in Morvant yesterday, as two men who were described by police as being notorious criminals, were murdered in separate mafia-styled killings, according to police.

In the first incident, a 92-year-old woman who lives alone, discovered the bloodstained body of Junior Black, 40, an ex-convict wanted for murder, armed robbery and gun-running, lying on the living-room floor of her Coconut Drive, Morvant home, early yesterday morning. Hours later, police were called out to First Caledonia, Morvant, where the body of drug-dealer Rasheed Bharath, 39, was found in a car which was abandoned in a narrow track. Bharath was shot three times in the head and once in the groin. He was found murdered, mere hours after being abducted from his home. These killings have brought to 37, the number of murders reported in the country for the year.  Between Carnival Friday and yesterday, five murders were committed in the country — with three being in Morvant. Residents of Rosewood Avenue, Coconut Drive, Morvant, reported hearing a single loud explosion sometime around 1 am yesterday. Minutes later, frail pensioner Louisa James was awakened from sleep by the sounds of loud groaning  coming from the front of her home. She did not leave the house to check the noise.

Around 5 am, James got out of bed and discovered Black’s body lying on the floor in the living-room, and called the police. Black lived in Angelina Terrace, Never Dirty, Morvant. “If I did not have a strong heart, I would have fallen down dead...I never expected to see a dead man in my house,” James told Newsday. Snr Supt Desmond Lambert, Supt Waldron Bishop, Insps Dave Hilaire and Koon Koon, Sgt Berment, David Abraham and others visited the scene. DMO Dr Ruby Lue Chee Lip arrived later. Black was shot once in the left side of the chest. Police suspect that he was ambushed and shot while walking along a track. After being shot, he broke into James’ home to hide from his killer and subsequently bled to death. Residents who gathered outside James’ home all heaped scorn at Black, describing him as a pest and bandit. In the second murder, around 12.45 pm, a man walking along a track off First Caledonia, Morvant en route to a friend’s home, noticed three men walking hurriedly up the track, ahead of him. As he walked on, the man noticed a heavily tinted grey Sunny with the driver’s door opened, parked along the narrow track. He then saw the body of a man, clad only in boxer shorts, slumped in the back seat of the car. The man ran to his friend’s home where a call was made to Morvant police. Police who visited the scene quickly recognised the body in the car as being that of Rasheed Bharath, 39, father of a three-year-old child, who lived with his common-law wife in Beetham Estate.