Anthony Burgess gunned down and killed

There’s another suspect on the run but here in the city. He is wanted for a shooting that has ended in murder. Shots rang out on Ebony Street just before ten on Monday night and one man was wounded. Hours late he succumbed while at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. But witnesses say Anthony Burgess, who also goes by the name McKenzie, was not the intended target and was shot under the cover of darkness by a gunman who was allegedly chasing someone else through his yard. Burgess was in the yard fetching water when he was surprised by his shooter; that’s the story we got from his brother who spoke to us off camera today.

Voice of: Brother of Murder Victim

“At the time the shooting occurred, I mi deh dah M.C.C. di watch wah football game and I get wah phone call dat my bredda just get shot. So we left di M.C.C. Grounds and we come dah corner ah Ebony and Mopan, weh I si Anthony Burgess receive bout five gunshot wounds right. At dah moment dehn ker ah to di hospital. When dehn get ah to di theatre, dah inna di theatre ih lose wah lot ah blood and dead right. Basically dat dah weh happen. Gunman di chase di lee youth and dehn run through di yard di same time di Ras di full ih water fi go bathe and gunman just open fire. Back ah di yard dark. Dat dah basically weh tek place.”

Delahnie Bain

“Was he someone that was in trouble before?”

Voice of: Brother of Murder Victim

“My bredda dah wah humble forty-one year old guy. He humble, dat dah di roots. He clean chicken dah John Pratt’s fried chicken. He clean chicken, he humble, he noh deal wid no violence. Dah man noh even know how fi bus wah gun and fi tek wah young fool fi come deal wid ih life dehn kind ah way check?”

Delahnie Bain

“So how is the family coping with the situation?”

Voice of: Brother of Murder Victim

“Basically di family humble yoh know. I talk to my mother, my mother cry two hours. My mother live dah Chicago. My mother tell me just hold it down. My mother di fly een Thursday fi have wah decent burial fi mi bredda.”

Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Pres Officer

Fitzroy Yearwood

“This shooting incident occurred nine-fifty last night and it was a murder because Burgess succumb to his injuries. He received an apparent gunshot wound to the left inner thigh and three to the buttocks. Police visited the scene on Ebony Street where they found burgess suffering from the apparent wounds behind a wooden building in the yard he was transported by the police to Karl Heusner Trauma Room.”

Burgess has one son who resides in the United Sates. So far police do not have any motives, leads or suspects.