4 murders over the weekend; including City Councillor’s brother

It was another deadly weekend and criminals were on a rampage. Tonight, there are four murders to report —three which took place in the City alone. We start with the early morning homicide that occurred shortly after four on Saturday. Thirty-nine year old Mayhar Singh—an office assistant for Attorney’s Arthur Saldivar and Dickie Bradley—was shot several times and just a few yards away from his home on Taylor’s Alley in the vicinity of Cemetery Road. According to neighbours who did not wish to appear on camera, Mayhar, who is the brother of City Councillor, Kevin Singh, was unable to sleep and decided to take a stroll when a lone gunman approached him and fired the fatal shots. News Five spoke with Councillor Singh who says that his brother was shot at close range.

Kevin Singh, Brother of Deceased
“Actually, we have really no idea. All we know is that he get shot coming out from ih house bout after four Saturday morning. According to the people dehn dah the alley, he get up and seh ih couldn’t sleep and the walk bout and dah into somebody shoot ah. We have no idea.”

Duane Moody
“How many times was he shot, sir?”

Kevin Singh
“I think I see bout three holes pan ah—two pan the top of his head. I noh know if dah so but I si two dah top so I couldn’t tell. When dehn do di post-mortem tomorrow den we wah more or less figure out how much shot ih get.”

Duane Moody
“So you know your brother to be someone for something like this to happen to him?”

Kevin Singh
“Well, I wouldn’t say ih dah wah bad person, but I no wahn tek up fi ah neither. But di area weh ih live, di alley weh ih live, I think unnu guys know dah wah very bad alley and dehn guys usually have people di shoot atta dehn or dehn di shoot atta people.”

Duane Moody
“Do you think he was shot by mistake?”

Kevin Singh
“By mistake? Well, I wouldn’t think so cause he seems to have been shot very like from close on.”

A post-mortem exam on Singh’s body is scheduled for Tuesday.