DG Homes operator killed in Matura

A DG Homes ma­chine op­er­a­tor was shot and killed af­ter leav­ing a cab­in at a Matu­ra re­sort to get ice ear­ly on Mon­day night, as gun­men con­tin­ue tar­get­ing peo­ple linked to slain busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra.

Po­lice said 34-year-old Ron­dell Adol­phus, al­so known as “Patch”, left the cab­in around 9.50 pm when he was am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times.

Pa­trons re­port­ed hear­ing gun­fire and ran for cov­er. On check­ing, they found Adol­phus’ body. No one else was in­jured.

A dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer was called and de­clared him dead at the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered ten spent .223 shell cas­ings and five spent 9 mm shell cas­ings.

Po­lice said Adol­phus worked as a ma­chine op­er­a­tor for DG Homes, the com­pa­ny owned by San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra, who was gunned down on March 13 at his of­fice in Ve­ga de Oropouche.

Po­lice sources said Adol­phus was among em­ploy­ees pre­vi­ous­ly de­tained with Guer­ra un­der a Pre­ven­tion De­ten­tion Or­der.

Since Guer­ra’s killing, rel­a­tives, em­ploy­ees and as­so­ciates have been liv­ing in fear amid a se­ries of at­tacks. Gun­men re­cent­ly rid­dled his son’s home in a gat­ed com­mu­ni­ty in Ve­ga de Oropouche with bul­lets while it was un­oc­cu­pied.

Res­i­dents and as­so­ciates say the vi­o­lence has ef­fec­tive­ly forced them in­to a state of self-im­pris­on­ment, with many afraid to leave their homes.

Se­nior of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing per­son­nel from the Matu­ra Po­lice Sta­tion, CID, EDTF and the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, vis­it­ed the scene. Adol­phus’ body was or­dered re­moved to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal mor­tu­ary pend­ing a post-mortem at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

No mo­tive has been es­tab­lished for the killing, but in­ves­ti­ga­tors are prob­ing pos­si­ble reprisal at­tacks.

Com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers have ex­pressed con­cern about es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence in San­gre Grande and are call­ing on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to ad­dress the sit­u­a­tion.

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.