TWO MEN are in police custody after a man was gunned down execution-style in his backyard on Saturday morning, moments after returning from a city night club.The body of 32-year-old O’Riley Small, called ‘Smallie’, of Lot 2 Smythe Street, Georgetown, was discovered by his mother at about 03:00hrs on that fateful Saturday. He was later pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Smallie was reportedly confronted by the gunmen, who opened fire, injuring Smallie to the head, hands, feet, abdomen and eyes. Several spent shells have been retrieved at the scene as police investigations continue.

In January 2010, Smallie was shot when a gunman opened fire and killed one of his friends, Vibert Weekes, a short distance from the popular ‘Red Dragon’ night club on Robb Street.

In January 2012, Smallie was remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge which alleged that, on January 9, 2012, with intent to commit murder, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded New York-based Guyanese Felix Alleyne, who lost one of his kidneys to gunshot injury.

And in 2013, Smallie was charged with break and enter and larceny committed on Central Electronics store located on Robb Street, Georgetown. He and an accomplice, David Lynch, had allegedly broken and entered Central Electronics store and stolen a quantity of items, including a flat screen television and a metal safe, along with an undisclosed sum of cash.

He was also fingered in the February 2013 attempted robbery of Wayne Heber at Premniranjan Place, Prashad Nagar, which left three bandits dead. Those killed were Tony Ogle, (42) called ‘Skin Teeth’ and ‘Ninja’, of Callendar Street, Albouystown; Leon Gittens, (24), called ‘Cow’, of Hill Street, Albouystown; and Shawn Brown.

In addition, back in 2009, Smallie was shot, along with four others, after a football match at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.