Another Dangriga resident was murdered today, making it the second homicide in that municipality over the past three days. While both incidents may not be related, investigators are tonight piecing together details of what may have led to the shooting death of Gabriel Laurie Junior, who was callously rubbed out inside his house this morning.
The family believes that the slaying of their loved one is the result of a misunderstanding he had with another man a few days ago. Forty-two-year-old Gabriel Laurie was inside his home this morning when death came knocking at his front door. Someone had made his way up the wooden flight of stairs and waited for a chance to ambush the unsuspecting resident. When the opportunity presented itself moments later, Laurie was met with a deadly fusillade.
Neighbors say they heard as many as five gunshots echo from inside the elevated structure. Raedawn Laurie, Sister of Deceased. They called my mom and told her that he got stabbed and then after that we got another call and then we got a call that actually he got shot up. But when we went to the morgue we saw that it was only one single shot to to his neck. A motive for the fatal attack is yet to be established. It is, however, the second murder in less than a week that Dangriga police are tasked with investigating.
The barrage of gunfire shattered the mid-morning silence. That man, she says, had ventured onto the property in pursuit of her sibling. He just tell me that he and the young man had this shuffle. Dat da all I know. In the wake of the shooting, CIB personnel are following all leads in this case, including the angle of a misunderstanding turned homicide.
We really di tek it haad because we were all close. We were close, close, close, especially me and he. So we di tek it really rough because ih neva deserve fi dead dis way. He noh deserve it.
