POLICE investigators on Monday confirmed receiving information on the person who may have carried out the execution-style gunning down of 27-year-old Colin Kendall, also known as ‘Bow Foot’, in Pike Street, North Sophia, Georgetown on Sunday evening.

Reports reaching this publication indicate that the police received information on the whereabouts of the possible suspect, but by the time ranks arrived at the location, the suspect had vanished. It is unclear if he was aware that ranks were heading his way.

This newspaper was told that the assailant arrived on the scene in a white car bearing a PMM series number plate and accompanied by four persons, but only one person exited the vehicle and opened fire on the water vendor.

Police sources confirmed that Kendall was shot 15 times about the body, and that the weapon used to carry out the execution-style killing was a 9MM pistol. Up to late Monday the police were reportedly examining several spent shells which they were able to recover from the scene of the killing.

There is thus far no clear motive available to the police on what may have led to Kendall’s killing, although there are reports that it might have stemmed from him being a bad paymaster, or him being fingered in a rape story last year. Police have confirmed that the motive behind the killing would be known only when the suspect is apprehended and questioned.

Persons in the North Sophia community related on Sunday that Colin Kendall had been a menace to the community for the short time he had been living there. They spoke of his propensity for creating issues with almost everyone over small matters, and said he would usually behave like a bully.

His mother, June Watts, was also asked on Sunday if her son had any run-in with the law, and of her take on the issue of his being fingered in a rape incident last year, said her son had, in the past, been picked up by the police for several spiteful allegations which had been levelled against him. She denied knowledge of the rape story, and said she had no knowledge that her son’s name was being called in that story or that his name had ever been mentioned in a rape matter.

Kendall was sitting at a shop playing cards with several friends on Sunday night when a car drove through the street and the gunman exited and pumped more than a dozen bullets into him before leaving him slumped on the ground.

The gunman then re-entered the car, which reversed out of the street and exited the area. Persons rushed to his assistance after initially ducking for cover, but they found that he was already apparently dead.

Also injured in the shooting was another resident from the community who was at the shop playing card with Kendall and his other friends.

By Leroy Smith