RALPH BAN­WARIE

Six-year-old Kylie Mal­oney died from a sin­gle gun­shot wound to her chest, a post-mortem con­duct­ed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James re­vealed yes­ter­day.

Rel­a­tives can now pre­pare for her fu­ner­al af­ter wait­ing for three days to have the au­top­sy done.

Mean­while, po­lice al­so made a break­through in the case af­ter they ar­rest­ed a sus­pect yes­ter­day.

Mal­oney, of Quash Trace Fos­ter Road, San­gre Grande, was shot dead af­ter gun­men stormed her rel­a­tives’ home at Blake Av­enue Ex­ten­sion, Damarie Hill, San­gre Grande, on Sun­day morn­ing and opened fire.

Her moth­er, Akela Mal­oney, and two male rel­a­tives were al­so in­jured dur­ing the at­tack.

A griev­ing rel­a­tive said that Kylie had gone with her moth­er to spend the week­end with rel­a­tives at Blake Av­enue Ex­ten­sion when tragedy struck.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­gat­ing the case mean­while said they had ar­rest­ed a sus­pect dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the San­gre Grande dis­trict for arms and am­mu­ni­tion. The sus­pect, 25, is from Guaico, San­gre Grande.

Po­lice re­ports in­di­cat­ed that around 2.15 am last Sun­day, fam­i­ly mem­bers, among them sev­en adults and three chil­dren, were asleep when the adults were awak­ened by their dogs bark­ing.

Guardian Me­dia was told one of the males rel­a­tive looked at his CCTV mon­i­tor and saw three armed men dressed in clothes re­sem­bling that of De­fence Force mem­bers in their yard. He al­so heard the men shout­ing, “Po­lice! Po­lice! Po­lice! Open the door.”

The male rel­a­tive told oth­ers not to open the door be­cause the men were not po­lice be­fore run­ning through the back door and hid­ing, while oth­ers hid them­selves in­side the house.

The men kicked down a door, en­tered the house and be­gan shoot­ing. Kylie, who was run­ning out of the bed­room, where she slept with her moth­er, was shot and fell to the ground. When the shoot­ing ceased Kylie was found ly­ing on the floor in a pool of blood but still alive.

She was placed in a pri­vate ve­hi­cle and rushed to San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal where she un­der­went surgery. She suc­cumbed to her in­jury one hour lat­er.