RALPH BAN­WARIE

A man was shot and killed by gun­men at the Va­len­cia Mar­ket on Fri­day night.

Ivan Lam­bkin, 31, of Va­len­cia Old Road, died at hos­pi­tal af­ter he re­ceived mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds to his body while stand­ing at the en­trance of the Va­len­cia Mar­ket.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 8.40 pm, mul­ti­ple ex­plo­sions were heard, and PC Sookdeo of the Va­len­cia CID ac­com­pa­nied by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Pa­trol Unit and Va­len­cia charge room re­spond­ed on foot.

On ar­rival, the of­fi­cers saw Lam­bkin clad in black 3/4 pants and a blue den­im jack­et ly­ing on the pave­ment at the en­trance to the mar­ket. He was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal and died on ar­rival.

Vis­it­ing the scene were Supt Sim­mons, Ag In­sp Harp­er, PC Sookdeo of the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post, PCs Maraj and Fuentes of SERU, and PC Ra­goo­bar and WPC Beek­ley of San­gre Grande CID along with Of­fi­cers from Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 11.

Po­lice re­cov­ered sev­er­al spent am­mu­ni­tion cas­ings at the scene.

No one has been ar­rest­ed.

On Sat­ur­day, Kathy-Ann Cam­po, the dis­traught moth­er of Lam­bkin said she was in a church ser­vice when her son was killed. “I don’t know what they killed my child for. I am not tak­ing that,” she screamed and cried.

Sit­ting next to Lam­bkin’s wife, An­na Pam­ponette, who cried con­tin­u­ous­ly and was un­able to speak, Cam­po told Guardian Me­dia that they al­so shot at her son in the Va­len­cia Mar­ket in Sep­tem­ber 2022. He knew the shoot­er, she said, but the po­lice nev­er made an ar­rest.

She al­ways re­mind­ed Lam­bkin about the shoot­ing that he sur­vived and al­ways dis­cour­aged him from lim­ing by the mar­ket. He will re­spond and say, “’If they want you they will come to your home or any­where.’”

Cam­po added, “My son is not per­fect, he used to sell his drugs, but nev­er killed any­one. He was a lov­ing child. He will do any­thing for any­body. I don’t know why they killed my son, he nev­er in­ter­fered with any­one and most of the time kept to him­self.

“I serve a true and liv­ing God. God’s wrath is not man’s wrath, God’s Sat­is­fac­tion is not man’s sat­is­fac­tion ... I will get my sat­is­fac­tion.”

Cam­po said peo­ple saw who shot her son and they are all afraid to speak to the po­lice. CCTV footage of the shoot­ing has been hand­ed over to the po­lice. She hopes the cul­prit is brought to jus­tice.

Cam­po said her son was the fa­ther of two chil­dren and he worked for their hap­pi­ness.