City Youth is month?s first murder victim

Believe it or not there were other events making news today, including an old media staple called crime. Jacqueline Woods chronicles the latest murder in the old capital.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

Twenty-five year old Andrew Kelly Young better known as Pancho was only a stones throw away from his house when he was gunned down from while riding his bicycle near the Yarborough Bridge. The bullet riddled blood stained pavement tells how viciously Young was killed.

Shauna Herrera, Common Law Wife, Deceased

?Pancho is a straight person, he cool and thing. He always like to work and thing, same way to. Once he has it, everybody have it check. So I no know what caused it to mek they killed him like that, check.?

But someone wanted Young dead. At the crime scene, police recovered a total of eighteen expended shells, but the family reports that their loved one was shot twenty-two times with a nine millimetre pistol. Shauna Herrera did not wish to appear on camera, but told us that she suspected her common law husband may have known something because he started acting strange several days before he was murdered.

Shauna Herrera

?We no know what gone on because Pancho is a person who no like talk. Once he know anything, he will keep that to himself so we no know what gone on because he no tell nobody nothing, nobody he no tell nothing to.?

Police say they have detained two persons in connection with the murder, but no arrests have so far been made. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.

Young?s murder was the first for the month of August and number fifty-two for 2004.