| A three-year-old feud over a woman, and other gang-related issues have left one Norton Street, Bagotstown family homeless and another in fear and mourning for a man wanted by police for murder.Dead: Jermaine RobertsJust after 12:15 hrs yesterday, 34 Norton Street,Authentic Jerseys For Sale, Bagotstown went up in flames. This incident occurred hours after one of its occupants, Anthony Trim, was identified as the trigger man who shot and killed Jermaine Roberts,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, 24, just outside the gate. The police identified the victim as Jermaine Simon called ‘Lapsy’ of Lot 41 Norton Street, Bagotstown, EBD.He was wanted by the police as the killer of Ryan Sooklall on March 1, 2015,Andy Lee Jersey, at Providence,Atlanta Falcons Jersey Clearance, EBD. According to reports, he and Sooklall had a falling out that saw Sooklall shooting up his home. The next day he visited Sooklall and killed him.Roberts (Simon) and Anthony Trim/Amsterdam (Soulgee) were said to have been friends who became long time rivals over a woman.At the time of the fire, Trim’s 39-year-old brother, Marlon, and two of his children were at home.He lived in the top flat while his little brother Anthony lived in the bottom flat. The distraught man recounted, “I went upstairs with my two daughters’ (aged 9 and 6). I was lying in my bed then I feel a heavy, heavy heat, and when I look through the door all I see was sheer black smoke.”He said that he grabbed his children and ran to safety leaving all his earthly possessions behind. “All the things burn up as well as my children clothes. Nothing (was) saved. The cabinet, TV, fridge, gas-stove, bed, wardrobe. I stranded right now,” the man who was burnt about his body just a month ago, said.The man said that his little brother, Anthony, called Soulgee, in his late 20s, went on the run after being accused of shooting his rival hours earlier. The alleged perpetrator is still on the run.What remains of Lot 34 Norton Street Bagotstown after the fire.“Years ago they had problems over a girl and last night (Tuesday) they de lighting squib. Then I hear dem de hollering, ‘Ow God Soulgee, you kill me son; you kill me nephew.’ After things die down he runaway last night and me ain’t hear from he since.”He believes that the fire was as a result of arson as he claims that persons were standing outside of his home claiming that it was his brother who was the triggerman.“De crowd on the road de saying dem gon bun down Soulgee house since last night,” the bewildered Marlon Trim said.The house was owned by their late mother, Barbara, and their uncle Michael Amsterdam of USA.Compton Sparman, Guyana Fire Service Divisional Officer, said that the fire is most likely the result of arson. He said that the fire service was summoned at 12:25hrs and three vehicles were able to contain fire to the one wooden building.Nicola Simon, 42,Vans Old Skool Wholesale, of 46 Norton Street, Bagotstown,Nike Just Do It Scarpe, the mother of the now dead Jermaine Roberts, of 24 Brutus Street, Agricola, was quick to refute allegations that her family was the perpetrator of arson.Recounting events, the mother said that on Tuesday night, her son visited his grandmother’s home and spoke briefly then he left to find his grandmother at a shop in the street. “He was on a bicycle and his sister was behind him, walking, to go meet his grandmother in the shop. Anthony Soulgee, when he reach me son, he fire a shot to my son head and he fall off he bicycle.”Joverna Simons, the dead man’s sister, said she stood over her brother and started hollering. “I see Soulgee with a gun in he hand and tell me get meh S@#*# from there and I run because he point the gun at me.”Marlon Trim and his two daughters who lost everything in the fire.The young woman who said she witnessed the shooting alleges, “When he done I see he on a phone with the gun in he hand saying that he just kill me brother.”The gunman who has a broken leg allegedly fled the scene with the aid of a crutch.The man was shot to the middle of his forehead and rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre but was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital because of the severity of his injury. He died at about 3:30hrs yesterday.Dubbing the death of her second child as a surprise, Simon admitted that Jermaine and Anthony were friends but fell out about three years ago after which they were okay again.“Not we and no fire. Me son dead; we ain’t got time with that. He shoot me son and I want the police to get him cause I see he with me own eye.”The angry woman said that her son “had to become a fugitive because Soulgee and he friends Francis David Degou, aka Cayenne,Discount Nike Sb Shoes, and Arif, called Abdool Browne, come threatening we up to (yesterday) morning. (My) son born and grow here and a crew always after me son.”The killer is said to be related to Travis Rudder who was killed at Nandy Park earlier this year. Villagers noted that there is a gang that has been creating fear in the community on a regular basis. Soulgee is a member of that gang. “When dem come dem does come with the guns and dressed in black like if is police.”“Dem is menace and got the village in fear,” the dead man’s relative also said. |
