Popular designer gunned down, execution style
–‘Child-mother’, taxi driver injured in hail of bullets

POPULAR fashion designer, Trevor Rose was shot dead early yesterday morning in the vicinity of Eccles, EBD whilst making his way home in a taxi.Taxi driver, Trevor Nieuenkirk and the designer’s female partner, Latoya Towler, with whom he reportedly has a child, were also injured in the incident.
The 32-year-old’s shooting death is being regarded as an execution.

This publication understands that when PMM 8113, the white Toyota 212 in which Rose and Towler were travelling stopped at the traffic light at the entrance to Eccles, a heavily tinted vehicle pulled up alongside it.
Still unclear, reports suggest that during a heated exchange between the driver of Rose’s taxi and the occupants of the other vehicle, someone exited the latter and opened fire on the former, hitting the designer in the upper body and neck, Towler in the buttocks, and the driver in the shoulder.
The deed being accomplished, the dark-tinted vehicle and its occupants then fled the scene, leaving the injured taxi driver to seek medical attention for himself and passengers at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).
Rose was pronounced dead on arrival, while Towler and the driver were treated for their injuries and questioned by the police.
According to release issued by the police yesterday, they were able to recover a 9mm pistol with 19 matching rounds at the scene of the shooting. It was not clear, however, whether the firearm at reference was the one used to kill Rose, or whether it belonged to any of the other occupants of the car in which the assailant, said to be the driver of the vehicle, was travelling.
It is also unclear whether Rose had any issue with anyone prior to his demise, to the extent that they would want to do him harm.
Some time ago, Rose made the headlines when he was robbed of a large sum of money which was supposed to be used to design costumes and a float for Mashramani that year.
Rose had been married to fashion icon, Michelle Cole, another top Guyanese designer with whom he had three to four children. The couple had gone on to form the company, Facts and Roses, now defunct.