COLIN Kendall, also known as “Bow foot”, a 27-year-old water vendor of North Sophia Squatting Area, was last evening gunned down while sitting playing cards with his friends at a shop on Pike Street, in the said North Sophia.According to eyewitnesses, Kendall, who was shirtless at the time, and only clad in slippers and short pants, was clearly the target. They said the lone gunman, who was travelling in a white motorcar, just concentrated his fire on the young man before making his getaway.

Persons who were at a nearby shop explained that the vehicle’s number plate carried the PMM series, but no one could recall the registration number, as they were all busy ducking for cover from the hail of bullets.
It was also reported that another person, who was only identified as Keith, was also struck by a bullet during the gunfire.
Last evening when this publication visited the area around 22:30hrs, the shopkeeper explained that she was inside when she heard the loud and rapid gunfire. She said when the shooting subsided, she went to the façade of the premises where she saw Kendall lying in a pool of blood. The woman said that her shop, which is primarily a grocery store, is also a popular liming spot for some youngsters who would show up from time to time to play board games.
At the crime scene, the cards with which Kendall and his friends were playing at the time of the shooting were scattered every which way, the fast congealing blood on the ground indicating that he had been lying there for some time before he was rushed to the hospital.
Over at the Georgetown Public Hospital, the slain man’s mother, June Watts, said she was at home on the back street when a little child came running to her relating that her son was shot.
“I was at home; a li’l boy come and call me, and tell me he just get shoot up,” Watts said. She said she arrived just in time to see one her older sons lifting his injured brother, with the help of another person, and placing him in a taxi preparatory to taking him to the hospital.
According to Watts, when she arrived at the hospital, she was told he was already dead, and was advised by the doctors that he was shot 15 times.
Persons in the Sophia neighbourhood however related that the now dead 27-year-old was no peach, and that he was just last year implicated in the rape of a young lady following an outing at GuyExpo.
Indeed, Watts herself had conceded that her son had had his fair share of run-ins with the law, but that he’d never been convicted.
Last evening, the Guyana Police Force reported that the shooting had occurred at approximately 21.40hrs; and that investigations into the matter are ongoing.

By Leroy Smith