A FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT came to an abrupt end on New Year’s Night after a shooting incident left one man dead and another – up to late yesterday – fighting for his life. Two other men were also hospitalised with gunshot injuries.
Dead is 28-year-old Damien Omar Mitchell of Lower Burney, St Michael.
Mitchell was shot in the head after two men opened fire on a group of men watching an annual football tournament on the Victor “Gas” Clarke Playing Field in Carrington Village, St Michael.
A group of men watching an annual football tournament on the Victor “Gas” Clarke Playing Field in Carrington Village, St Michael.
An eyewitness told the DAILY NATION that Mitchell was pleading for his life, saying, “Don’t kill me,” beforesuccumbing to his injuries.
Mitchell was with others under a tent when the incident occurred around 7:40 p.m.
Sheldon Millington, 19, of Grosvenor Road, Carrington Village, was listed in critical condition with a number of gunshot wounds to the upper body.
He was rushed to surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).
Also injured in the New Year’s shooting were Jabari Jackson of Bridge Cot, St George, and Nico Rayside of Hinds Gap, Halls Road, St Michael.
Jackson had gunshot wounds to both legs while Rayside was injured in the neck and both legs.
Knowledgeable sources indicated that the incident was the result of an ongoing feud between groups from the Carrington Village and Halls Road districts.
Police were up to late last night seeking those involved in the shooting that resulted in Barbados’ first murder for 2012.
Sources close to police investigations also said that Mitchell was wanted for questioning in connection with the Christmas Eve shooting at Roebuck Street in the City where two men were shot at the Brooklyn Finest store.
Both Lamar Hewitt, 19, of New Orleans, St Michael and Andrew Watson, also 19, of Wildey in the same parish were shot and hospitalised following a dispute at the store.
Another man believed to be involved in Monday’s fatal shooting has also been described as a “person of interest” in the Christmas Eve shooting incident.
