POLICE investigations into the Eccles ‘stop-light’ shooting on January 26 last, in which popular designer Trevor Rose, 32, was gunned down execution-style, has reached a dead-end.

Crime Chief Leslie James said there is nothing further to report; and although several persons were initially questioned, no one has been arrested for that crime, which claimed the life of the father of eight in a hail of bullets in the vicinity of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, whilst he was making his way home in a taxi.

However, James has said that the case is still being investigated.
Trevor Rose had been a fashion designer/events coordinator, and had served as president of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) prior to his demise.
Taxi driver Trevor Nieuenkirk and the designer’s female partner, Latoya Towler, with whom he reportedly had a child, were also injured in that incident.

Reports are that a heavily tinted vehicle had pulled up alongside the vehicle in which Rose was travelling, PMM 8113, when it stopped at the traffic light at the entrance to Eccles; and following a heated exchange of words between the driver of Rose’s taxi and the occupants of the other vehicle, someone exited the tinted vehicle and opened fire on the taxi, hitting Rose in the upper body and neck, Towler in the buttocks, and the driver in the shoulder.
Thereafter, the dark-tinted vehicle and its occupants fled the scene, leaving the injured taxi driver to seek medical attention for himself and his 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.

Police, according to a release they had issued, were able to recover a 9mm pistol with 19 matching rounds at the scene of the shooting.
Rose had, some time ago, made the headlines when he was robbed of a large sum of money that was supposed to be used to design costumes and a float for Mashramani festivities that year.

Rose had been married to fashion icon Michelle Cole, another top Guyanese designer, and had fathered three or four children with her. The couple had gone on to form the now defunct company Facts and Roses.
Rose would have celebrated his 33rd birthday on July 1, 2014.
Written By Michel Outridge