RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT & KEVON FELMINE

The crim­i­nal el­e­ment went on a ram­page yes­ter­day, killing three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two teenagers and a 60-year-old man.

And in an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a San Fer­nan­do man stabbed his girl­friend to death be­fore tak­ing his own life in a do­mes­tic-re­lat­ed mat­ter.

In the lat­est in­ci­dent, po­lice said moth­er of three Adeina Adana Al­leyne, 35, was stabbed to death by her com­mon-law hus­band in­side her Build­ing Five apart­ment at Em­ba­cadere, San Fer­nan­do, some­time be­fore 7 pm.

Po­lice said around 7 pm, a rel­a­tive of Al­leyne dis­cov­ered her body soaked in blood in­side her apart­ment’s bed­room. Her com­mon-law hus­band Dwight Wal­drop, al­so know as Quan, was found hang­ing in a near­by room.

A rel­a­tive said Wal­drop, a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, had ac­cused Al­leyne of be­ing un­faith­ful dur­ing and ar­gu­ment. How­ev­er, they said Al­leyne, an em­ploy­ee at Puff and Stuff Bak­ery in Vista­bel­la, was a qui­et and pleas­ant woman. They said the cou­ple had two sons to­geth­er but they were not at the apart­ment at the time of the in­ci­dent.

San Fer­nan­do po­lice and of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion Three re­spond­ed.

Hours be­fore this, po­lice of­fi­cers who were on the crime scene at Bon Air, Arou­ca, up to late last night, said Akid Duke, 15, was be­lieved to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was killed.

Duke was fa­tal­ly shot at about 3.30 pm while seat­ed in a car that was parked along 12th Av­enue, off Cir­cu­lar Street, Bon Air Gar­dens. Po­lice said the boy was wait­ing on his moth­er, who went in­to the com­mu­ni­ty for a job in­ter­view. How­ev­er, he was un­know­ing­ly parked in gang ter­ri­to­ry. Po­lice said a gun­man ap­proached the ve­hi­cle and fired about a dozen shots to­wards Duke.

Just half an hour ear­li­er in Las Lo­mas, Ham­mat George was one of three peo­ple who were shot while along Jankie Trace.

Res­i­dents heard a spate of rapid gun­shots and up­on check­ing found three men nurs­ing gun­shot wounds. One man was shot in the legs, the oth­er in the ab­domen and George was hit sev­er­al times about the body. George suc­cumbed to his wounds at the scene. The oth­er two in­jured men were tak­en for med­ical treat­ment.

The day start­ed off with the dis­cov­ery of the body of miss­ing teenag­er Christo­pher Cum­mings, 17.

Cum­mings’ body was found un­der a pile of gal­vanise sheets in a park off Achong Trace, Tu­na­puna - a stone’s throw from where he lived. The was dis­cov­ered by CEPEP work­ers do­ing beau­ti­fi­ca­tion works in the area. Po­lice said the boy was shot sev­er­al times in the chest and up­per body.

Cum­mings was re­port­ed miss­ing since last Fri­day. Speak­ing at the fam­i­ly’s Balt­haz­ar Street home, Cum­mings’ sis­ter, Crys­tal Al­lene, said she didn’t know why her broth­er was killed. She de­scribed her broth­er as a “cool, hum­ble and re­spectable” young boy.

His rel­a­tives ex­pressed anger over what they claimed was the po­lice’s in­ac­tion in tak­ing their miss­ing per­son’s re­port se­ri­ous­ly and the lack of in­ter­est in send­ing out search par­ties to look for the teenag­er.

“We don’t de­serve this and Christo­pher didn’t de­serve this. He was nev­er locked up by po­lice for guns, weed or rob­beries. Once he was grow­ing his hair and didn’t have it plait­ed and the po­lice stopped him and told him by his ap­pear­ance he would be judged and be­ing the re­spectable per­son my broth­er was, he went and cut his hair af­ter. Why? Be­cause he re­spect­ed the po­lice for what they said to him,” Al­leyne said.

“All those sleep­less nights we spent look­ing for Christo­pher and he was right un­der our noses all along. We went to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon and the po­lice turned us away say­ing they had no re­ceipt to give us, to come the next day. They showed us the re­ceipt book emp­ty. We went back Sun­day and noth­ing again. This morn­ing (Tues­day) af­ter 1 am they came by us to gath­er in­for­ma­tion, at that hour when peo­ple are sup­posed to be in their beds asleep.”

She added, “We are poor peo­ple. If my broth­er was white or had an In­di­an name the po­lice would have done some­thing, that is why peo­ple breed­ing mon­sters out here.”

Al­leyne said Cum­mings was a Type I di­a­bet­ic and need­ed dai­ly in­sulin for sur­vival, adding she did not think that some­one would have killed her broth­er and “put him un­der gal­va­nize right close to their home like a dog.”

Cum­mings’ el­der broth­er Kadeem Sawyer was mur­dered near the Tu­na­puna Mar­ket in 2014 and his fa­ther passed away two years ago.

A po­lice of­fi­cer from the Tu­na­puna sta­tion who did not want to be named said the po­lice took a re­port from the fam­i­ly and were in­ves­ti­gat­ing his dis­ap­pear­ance. Asked whether or not the po­lice had launched search par­ties to look for the miss­ing teen, the of­fi­cer replied: “There would have been an as­signed in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cer to the case.”

The mur­ders took the count so far for the year to 64. At the same time last year, the fig­ure was 117.