Third killing in Valencia leaves residents fearful

RALPH BAN­WARIE

GML Cor­re­spon­dent

A 39-year-old man was shot dead in Emon Lane, Va­len­cia on Sun­day night. The in­ci­dent marks the third killing in the area with­in days and has deep­ened fear among res­i­dents.

The vic­tim, Ke­shawn Guy, of Emon Lane, Va­len­cia and Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, was at­tacked around 8.40 pm while ap­proach­ing his home with his wife.

Po­lice said a sus­pect ap­proached Guy, who ran when he saw the man. The sus­pect gave chase and mo­ments lat­er loud ex­plo­sions were heard. Guy’s wife lat­er found him ly­ing on the road­way with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Of­fi­cers from the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post re­spond­ed and found Guy un­re­spon­sive. A Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer pro­nounced him dead at the scene. Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered items of ev­i­den­tial val­ue, but the sus­pect es­caped.

The killing fol­lows two oth­er re­cent mur­ders in the same area.

Last Tues­day, 52-year-old Dex­ter Fer­reira, an em­ploy­ee of the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, was shot dead by a gun­man short­ly af­ter buy­ing dou­bles at the cor­ner of Emon Lane. One day ear­li­er, Shaun Charles was killed in a sep­a­rate shoot­ing, while his wife was al­so shot and re­mains hos­pi­talised.

Po­lice have made no ar­rests in those cas­es.

Res­i­dents said the killings have left the com­mu­ni­ty on edge, with some not­ing that two of the vic­tims were mem­bers of a mosque in the area. They are call­ing for in­creased po­lice pres­ence and ac­tion to re­store a sense of safe­ty.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.