Eight months after his brother was murdered, Allan Solyn was murdered at Pregnancy Lane, Upper La Puerta, Diego Martin yesterday.
At around 2 pm residents heard gunshots and later found the 32-year-old dead in an outdoor bathroom. Police said the deceased was part of a gang warring with other men from the La Puerta area. That ongoing war was said to be responsible for the murder of Solyn’s brother, Joel,in March. In that incident on March 5, Solyn was at his home with other relatives at around 4 am when four men dressed in dark clothing entered the house and killed him.
Police said the Solyn brothers, along with their friend Sheldon Trimmingham who was killed on February 7, were at war with Curtis “Birdman” Smith Jr Smith, from Riverside Drive, La Puerta, Diego Martin, who was gunned down August 21 at a shop on La Puerta Avenue. The 36-year-old contractor had hours earlier been videotaped kicking a man in the head and abdomen before three men came out of a Nissan AD Wagon and shot him.
In an unrelated incident, an 11-year-old was yesterday fighting for her life after she was shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet when gunmen opened fire at her rented home.
At around 9 pm Darlissa Job was the first floor apartment at Boodram Street, Cunupia, when she was shot. Her mother, Adanna Job, had just returned from work when she heard gunshots coming from upstairs. After the shooting stopped her child said she had been shot.
Darlissa was shot in the abdomen with the bullet perforating her lungs and liver and is warded in a serious condition at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.