POLICE yesterday identified the construction worker who was shot to death at a worksite on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway on Monday as 40-year-old Anthony Neely.
Mr Neely, of Pinewood Gardens, was shot by a gunman at the old City Market site where he was working on the construction of the new Post Office.
At the scene, Chief Supt Clayton Fernander confirmed that Mr Neely was known to police and had been “in and out of the system” prior to his death.
However, he noted that police have no motive for the killing, which marked the 36th for the year, according to The Tribune’s records.
According to police, Mr Neely was with a number of other employees in the westernmost portion of the plaza shortly after 2pm, when a gunman entered the area, shot him and then fled on foot.
On Monday, Supt Fernander said: “We appeal to members of the public who may have been passing in this area, we have some business establishments just behind this construction site, also a residential area. So we’re appealing to anybody who would have been in this area, or saw or heard anything to please come forth to assist in advancing this investigation.”
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John 7 years ago
At the scene, Chief Supt Clayton Fernander confirmed that Mr Neely was known to police and had been, "in and out of the system" prior to his death.
Mr. Fernander you sound sick and need to stop trying to justify you and and your police force not doing your jobs and stopping these murders. In other words you are essentially saying the man (Mr. Neely) may as well have been killed while breaking in someone's house or robbing a store, rather than being killed on a legitimate job making an honest days pay. "Because once he is known to us, that's how we look at him." Did this man not pay penalty for the crimes he committed or was he a fugitive from justice when he was gunned down under the brightness of the sun? Does over Six Hundred murders in 5 years (Eleven Hundred in 10 years) not bother you? Do you not sometimes think that maybe some of that blood is also on your hands? Do you even sleep at night or has your conscience rubbed smooth?
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