By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff ReporterIT WILL not be a happy Christmas for Georgia Boyd and her seven-year-old twin sons, whose father was shot dead Monday night and their cousin hospitalised with gunshot wounds, following an eruption of violence in Central Village, south central St. Catherine.
The dead man is 32-year-old Patrick Guy, nicknamed 'James', the brother of the Jamaica Labour Party Councillor Donovan Guy; Richard Pusey, 25, alias 'Richie', has been hospitalised with gunshot wounds.
Police reports are that at about 7:20 p.m. Pusey was riding his bicycle along Big Lane, when a man known only as 'Shotty Mark', pulled a gun and opened fire hitting Pusey in the left breast. Patrick Guy who went to the scene, objected to the shooting, and he too was shot, allegedly by Shotty Mark. He died at the scene.
Yesterday residents said the shooting was a spin-off from a domestic dispute which developed on Monday at a construction site in Twickenham Park, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, near the Jose Marti High School.
It is alleged that Shotty Mark had accused persons of being disrespectful to him. He claimed that they wanted to take away part of his work on the construction site and give it to other people.
According to police reports, Guy who was the personnel manager on the site, was one of the persons who was allegedly accused by Shotty Mark of taking away his work and giving it to other people. Residents claimed that Shotty Mark, armed with two handguns saw Pusey riding along Big Lane and shot him.
Guy who immediately visited the scene, began accusing Shotty Mark of wanting to break the fragile peace which has existed in the community for less than a year.
The police said they have launched a search for Shotty Mark.
"Last year we never have a good Christmas because of the shooting that did go on round ya (Big Lane, Central Village). This Christmas is even worse, because me go lose me children them father. He was the breadwinner; right now I don't know how I am going to manage," Miss Boyd told The Gleaner yesterday.
