Gunmen strike in Sufferers’ Heights
ARMED men opened fire on the occupants of a home in the Sufferers’ Heights section of Central Village, St Catherine early yesterday morning, killing two teenagers and injuring a 22-year-old woman.
Milton “Spuddy” McGregor, 19, tractor driver of Gordon Boulevard in Central Village, died after receiving several shots to the head.
Sulan Richards, 15, a student of the Norman Manley High School who lived at 8 Swettenham Road, Kingston 10, was shot several times in the neck.
Teneisha Webb, 22, McGregor’s common-law wife and sister to Richards, received gunshot wounds to the buttocks. She has been admitted to hospital.
The room in which they slept was sprayed with at least 13 bullets.
Yesterday, Webb’s three year-old daughter, displayed a mixture of obliviousness and sorrow. “…dem shoot me mama inna her belly but she no dead… but me ‘fada’ dead you know,” she said as she held onto her grandmother’s hand in the blood-splattered room.
Two suspects held in connection with the attack were being interrogated by homicide detectives, but up to press time their names were being withheld as they had not been charged.
The police theorise that the attack, which took place in the China Town section of the community at about 2:45 am, is linked to a love triangle involving one of the two women shot.
The woman, cops said, had been warned to leave her community after a fight between two men with whom she was involved. Cops said she recently began seeing another man after her boyfriend was taken into custody in connection with a double murder. There was a fight between the two suitors last month, during which one of the men was wounded with a machete; and last Friday, cops said, they warned the woman that they suspected trouble was brewing and she should leave.
“This may be the result of her failing to adhere to our advice,” one detective told the Observer at the scene yesterday morning.
Shortly before 3:00 am, gunmen entered the partially completed four-bedroom house while the occupants slept. Other tenants, whom the attackers made no attempt to harm, said they were awakened by the sound of gunshots.
They found McGregor’s bullet-riddled body in a pool of blood on the floor, and Richards’ body on the bed.
After being shot, Webb crawled into another tenant’s room.
Police said they found 13 9mm spent shells in the room.
Yesterday morning, an eerie quiet hung over the death house where scores of curious residents milled around. One tenant was busy washing blood from the floor of McGregor’s room.
The large unfinished room had one closed window, and a gaping space where another window had yet to be installed.
Four bullet holes were seen on the door of the room.
“They were killed execution style,” one person said. “Dem come in, do dem business and leave, because the other three tenants could get killed too, but dem come to do business and left.”
Marva Spauldings, 40, of Swettenham Road, the mother of both Webb and Richards, said her younger daughter left home on Monday to stay with her sister.
“An she dead Tuesday. Me no have no money to bury her,” the grief-stricken woman lamented.