The execution-style killing at Cummings Lodge
FOLLOWING the execution-style killing of five persons, including a three-year-old boy, on Saturday night at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, the police said the incident occurred at about 19:35hrs at Second Street, resulting in the death of Steve Jupiter, 38, of 12 Industry, East Coast Demerara; his reputed wife, Fiona Singh, 23, of Independence Boulevard, Georgetown; their son, Neil Jupiter, three ; Christopher Gordon, 38, of Princes Street, Georgetown; and Sherwin(surname not yet known) called ‘Dice Head’ of  Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown.
Police reported that the victims were travelling in motor car PLL 2279 along Second Street, Cummings Lodge, when they came under gunfire.
Steve Jupiter, Christopher Gordon, and Sherwin were pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), while Neil Jupiter and Fiona Singh succumbed to their injuries while receiving medical treatment.
A number of spent shells have been recovered by the police as the investigations continue.
No arrests were made up to press time.
At the home of Fiona Singh yesterday relatives were erecting a tent for the wake as they discussed the incident.
They said Fiona left home with her only child, Neil, when her child father, Steve Jupiter came in his car PLL 2279 to take her to visit a cousin, who had returned to Guyana from Suriname.
It was when she was returning home that the car they were travelling was riddled with a hail of bullets from occupants of an unmarked car as it drove past.
Reports said the car was trailing the group since Friday and the assailants used high-powered weapons.
Meanwhile, at the home of Christopher Gordon,  his upstairs apartment was closed and the tenants on the lower flat of the building said the man lived alone since his mother and other relatives reside overseas.
At the home of Sherwin (only name given) called “Dice Head”, where he lived with his girlfriend, occupants yesterday said the woman was at the police station.
When the bodies arrived at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Public Hospital Georgetown Saturday night, there was an outpouring of pain and anger as hundreds gathered.
Many of them banged the ambulance with their hands, wrestling with porters, police and other hospital staff to get a glimpse of the dead.
Police eventually brought the situation under control by ensuring that the bodies were whisked out of the vehicle through a narrow passage of people. When that was done, most of the crowd dispersed.
Police then closed the hospital compound gate, only allowing seemingly ill persons to enter the premises.
This is the first mass-killing of several persons for the year, compared to the same period in 2008 when a total of 23 persons were killed in two massacres.