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Four shot dead
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, September 08, 2005
These female residents of 63 Mountain View Avenue hold their heads and cry after viewing the body of 68 year-old businessman Roy Burgher, who was shot and killed as he ate lunch in a bar he operated in the community yesterday. (Photo: Michael Gordon
FOUR people were shot dead by gunmen in Kingston, yesterday.
One of the dead men has been identified as Roy Burgher, 68, who the police said was shot inside a bar he operated at 63 Mountain View Avenue, the community where one man was killed during Tuesday's protests by the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party.
According to the police, a group of gunmen assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns, invaded 63 Mountain View Avenue, an impoverished community, and shot Burgher while he ate lunch at about 11.30 am yesterday.
Burgher's daughter, wife and neighbours were all shocked by the brutal nature in which the elderly man was killed.
"What a set a brute them wicked.," one woman said as tears streaked down her cheeks.
A large pool of blood marked the spot where Burgher fell. He was shot in the head and the abdomen and died on the spot. A piece of food he had been chewing at the time, was still affixed between his lips when workers from the Maddens Funeral Home removed his body. Blood soaked his whitened hair.
"See the food all still inna him mouth, them boy deh wicked and no have no soul," another onlooker said.
Police said they recovered four M16, one AK 47 and 16 9mm spent shells outside the yard and four AK 47, two 9mm spent shells and one live AK 47 round inside the small bar where Burgher was killed.
Police said the assassins carried out the murder on their second visit to the community as they received reports of armed men invading the area and stealing appliances and other personal effects from a home near to the death scene earlier in the day.
Minutes after Burgher was killed the Best Buy Meat Grocery and Wholesale was fire-bombed and burnt out. The wholesale was situated about 150 yards from the spot where Burgher died and carries the same 63 Mountain View Avenue address.
At about the same time Burgher met his end, Patrick Case, 25, was also shot to death at Savertery Road in the Kingston 11 area.
The police said Case was found lying in a pool of blood after residents reported hearing explosions and summoned them.
And at about 7:00 am yesterday the Constant Spring police said they were called to a spit of land which separates the residential communities of Constant Spring Gardens and Whitehall Gardens, where the bodies of two men were found wrapped in sheets.
The men were identified as Marlon Facey, also called "Brando" of Whitehall Avenue and Richard Morris, also called "Bob" of Border in St Andrew.
The hands and feet of both men were bound and their mouths gagged. Both bodies had multiple gunshot wounds and were wrapped in at least four sheets each. Police say they believe the men were killed elsewhere and dumped at the scene.
No motive has yet been established for any of the killings.
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, September 08, 2005
These female residents of 63 Mountain View Avenue hold their heads and cry after viewing the body of 68 year-old businessman Roy Burgher, who was shot and killed as he ate lunch in a bar he operated in the community yesterday. (Photo: Michael Gordon
FOUR people were shot dead by gunmen in Kingston, yesterday.
One of the dead men has been identified as Roy Burgher, 68, who the police said was shot inside a bar he operated at 63 Mountain View Avenue, the community where one man was killed during Tuesday's protests by the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party.
According to the police, a group of gunmen assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns, invaded 63 Mountain View Avenue, an impoverished community, and shot Burgher while he ate lunch at about 11.30 am yesterday.
Burgher's daughter, wife and neighbours were all shocked by the brutal nature in which the elderly man was killed.
"What a set a brute them wicked.," one woman said as tears streaked down her cheeks.
A large pool of blood marked the spot where Burgher fell. He was shot in the head and the abdomen and died on the spot. A piece of food he had been chewing at the time, was still affixed between his lips when workers from the Maddens Funeral Home removed his body. Blood soaked his whitened hair.
"See the food all still inna him mouth, them boy deh wicked and no have no soul," another onlooker said.
Police said they recovered four M16, one AK 47 and 16 9mm spent shells outside the yard and four AK 47, two 9mm spent shells and one live AK 47 round inside the small bar where Burgher was killed.
Police said the assassins carried out the murder on their second visit to the community as they received reports of armed men invading the area and stealing appliances and other personal effects from a home near to the death scene earlier in the day.
Minutes after Burgher was killed the Best Buy Meat Grocery and Wholesale was fire-bombed and burnt out. The wholesale was situated about 150 yards from the spot where Burgher died and carries the same 63 Mountain View Avenue address.
At about the same time Burgher met his end, Patrick Case, 25, was also shot to death at Savertery Road in the Kingston 11 area.
The police said Case was found lying in a pool of blood after residents reported hearing explosions and summoned them.
And at about 7:00 am yesterday the Constant Spring police said they were called to a spit of land which separates the residential communities of Constant Spring Gardens and Whitehall Gardens, where the bodies of two men were found wrapped in sheets.
The men were identified as Marlon Facey, also called "Brando" of Whitehall Avenue and Richard Morris, also called "Bob" of Border in St Andrew.
The hands and feet of both men were bound and their mouths gagged. Both bodies had multiple gunshot wounds and were wrapped in at least four sheets each. Police say they believe the men were killed elsewhere and dumped at the scene.
No motive has yet been established for any of the killings.
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