Jensen La Vende

A St He­le­na man was mur­dered on Sun­day night while at the wake of his for­mer boss' broth­er, who had him­self been killed.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Nicky Joseph, 31, of Madras Street, was at the wake of Jean-Pierre As­see at Sam­dass Street, Arou­ca, when he was called out­side and shot. Po­lice said while at the wake some­one tele­phoned Joseph around 10.30 pm. When he stepped out­side he was shot and killed.

Speak­ing with the me­dia yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, rel­a­tives of the fa­ther of two chil­dren, six and four, said the chil­dren were un­aware that he had been killed.

As­see was Mo­hammed's old­er broth­er. Mo­hammed was killed out­side his Ross Trace, St He­le­na Vil­lage, Ca­roni, home on April 19.

As­see was buried yes­ter­day.

In an in­ci­dent last De­cem­ber As­see, 30, a car deal­er, was shot at least ten times. He died last Tues­day night at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Cen­tre. As­see, of Sier­ra Vista Dri­ve, Omeara Road, Ari­ma, was stand­ing out­side his busi­ness­place at Ram­cha­ran Street, St Au­gus­tine, with Dave John, 48, and 11-year-old Kadeem Whiskey when a car drove by and opened fire.

John was shot in the right hip and Whiskey in the right ear. It was the sec­ond at­tempt on his life. The first time the killer was shot dead by a se­cu­ri­ty guard hired to pro­tect the busi­ness­man.

On Sep­tem­ber 29, Quane Rochford was gunned down by a se­cu­ri­ty guard af­ter Rochford tried to kill As­see out­side his home.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of Carl Ramdeo.

Ramdeo's body was found in­side a burnt shack at Crown Trace West, Cou­va. Po­lice said Ramdeo was a strug­gling drug ad­dict.

And in an­oth­er mat­ter, the body of a man found at Clifton Street, Laven­tille, on Fri­day night has been iden­ti­fied as Ker­ry Ser­rette.

Ser­rette's body was found around 9 pm last Fri­day face down at Clifton Street. Po­lice said they re­ceived a phone call in­form­ing them that the man had been dis­cov­ered dead on the road­way. Po­lice said 16 spent shells were re­trieved from the scene of the shoot­ing.

As of yes­ter­day, the mur­der toll has tied with that of last year for the same pe­ri­od at 41.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are con­tin­u­ing their in­ves­ti­ga­tions and are call­ing on mem­bers of the pub­lic to pro­vide them with any in­for­ma­tion that may as­sist in ar­rest­ing those re­spon­si­ble for the mur­ders.