– Crime Chief
CRIME Chief Leslie James said, yesterday, that Police are following several leads in probing the Orvin Millington shooting murder.
But the Senior Police Superintendent assured that it is just a matter of time before they crack the case.
Millington, nicknamed ‘Champo’, was gunned down in Curtis Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, while playing cards at a friend’s birthday celebration.
Detectives retrieved three 9 mm spent shells at the scene of the killing where Millington was shot once to the head.
The 30-year-old businessman/part-time taxi driver was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after a lone gunman walked up to him, asked whether he remembered him and, without waiting for a response, fired three shots before escaping.
Based on eyewitness reports, there were more than a dozen people at the location when the incident occurred but most of them ran for cover.
Millington’s mother and sister told reporters that a few minutes before their loved one was killed, they had telephoned him to enquire when he was returning home and he indicated he would be doing so shortly.
Not long after that conversation, someone called to inform them that he was shot.
Four years ago, Millington’s brother, Vibert Weeks called ‘Vibey’ was murdered in a similar way in front of a Robb Street nightspot, also in the city, as he exited the building.
No one was ever arrested or charged for that crime.
(By Michel Outridge)
