LAVERN Griffith, the mother of 36-year-old executed mason, Dexter Griffith, is of the view that her son was murdered because of greed and envy.He was murdered by persons in the very neighbourhood in which he lived and had previously considered his friends.
Dexter’s mother told the Guyana Chronicle that since her son acquired a motorcycle, he became an enemy to the other young men he had thought were his friends. Some of them even made remarks about the amount of money he was making as a mason.
“He ain’t had no problem with no one at all; that is what is getting me mad,” she said. “He does carry he child to school in the morning, and bring her back home; no problem at all with anyone.”
Ms. Griffith went on to state that her son would only be at home when he is not working, and that late in the afternoon, after bringing his child from school, he would go back on ‘The Strip’ to play football with the other men from the community.
After that, she said, he would take a bath and go around the corner where he would interact with some small children. He had just done that when he was gunned down on Tuesday evening, but the smaller children were not around at the time.
WORK-SHY
The distraught mother explained that the little money that her son makes from the jobs he secures had caused a problem between him and the other young men who are really work-shy, but who are always striving to be fashionable.
It was after 20.00hrs that the woman said she heard gunshots coming from around the corner, and when she looked outside, she noticed that all the people who were on the road were running from the direction in which the gunshots were coming.
She told the Guyana Chronicle that after not seeing her son among those persons, she got very worried and asked his “child-mother” to go around the corner and look for him.
When the woman arrived at the corner where her “child-father” would be liming, she saw him lying in the drain, bleeding.
According to reports, he was sitting when two men approached him, and one of them opened fire on him before fleeing on foot.
When the man’s mother was informed of the tragedy, she reportedly rushed out of her house and went to the scene. And on seeing him lying there in the drain, bleeding, she pulled him out. He was trying to tell her something, she said, but apparently, he never got a chance to say much. But sources on the scene told the Guyana Chronicle that he told her the name of one of his two assailants.
Up to late last evening, the police had not yet arrested anyone in connection with the shooting. Police sources however informed the Guyana Chronicle that the ‘call-name’ of at least one of the men had been mentioned, and that he is being sought.