The wife of Penal vendor Steve “Puntas” Stephens wants the “wicked person” who murdered her husband to be brought to justice. “The whole community angry, the whole community cannot understand and everyone want justice,” said Leah Stephens, 33, yesterday.
She believed her husband was murdered for some other reason than jealously.
“When someone call me say something happen to him I say he get knock down or a car run into he shed. Never in a million years I thought someone would shoot my husband. He was never in any drugs or owning anything.
“Everybody want to know who is this wicked person who kill my husband, a kind and generous, hard working man.”
Giving her husband’s loving, jovial and friendly personality, she believes he knew his killer and would have raised his arm to hail him when he was shot. She said her husband was shot twice on his arms.
Leah, who married Stephens 12 years ago and has three young children, ages ten, seven and four, said her life is now in shambles. Not only has she lost a “perfect husband,” he was the sole breadwinner of the family. “I don’t know how I will make it.”
She said her husband was very hardworking and had recently dug a pond in the garden, planted several crops including corn, bananas and pumpkin and was extending their home to build another bedroom.
Police said around 8 am on Saturday, Stephens was at his vegetable and fruit stall along the Penal Rock Road when a man shot him. Up to late yesterday no one had been arrested for his murder. Penal CID and Homicide detectives are investigating.