While many children were blessed with the opportunity to have their father for the New Year, the four children of a clothes vendor were deprived of that opportunity when their father was gunned down at the East Coast Bus Park, Georgetown, on Friday.
Dead: Paul Anthony Smith, aka “Blacka”
Dead is 32-year-old Paul Anthony Smith called “Blacka” of Lot 31 Bent Street Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, who was shot during a row over a female. Reports are the incident occurred at about 18:30h at Commerce Street, Georgetown, where Smith was observed holding a cutlass and heading to his car when he was shot by another male, who is also a clothes vendor at Longden and Commerce Streets. After being shot, Smith fell onto the front passenger seat of his car. He was picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was pronounced dead. He bore one gunshot wound to the upper back, Police said.
Acting upon information received, the Police arrested the 29-year-old suspect, who is presently in custody assisting with the investigation.
Smith’s body is at the GHPC Morgue awaiting a post-mortem examination (PME).
