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Men Killed Hours Apart Get Head Shot

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By: Spokesman Newsroom 

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 1st March 2019)- Autopsies performed on the bodies of victims of recent fatal shooting incidents reveal that two individuals killed hours apart were shot to the head.

Forensic Pathologist Dr. Valery Alexandrov, the cause of death of 35-year-old Vere Amory and 25-year-old Joel ‘Bouyaka’ Phillip was a single gunshot wound to the head.  

In the case of 25-year-old Gavin Rogers, cause of death was concluded as the result of multiple gunshot wounds about the body. 

On Valentine’s Day (Thursday 14th February) at about 2 AM Phillip was shot in his home in the S. Johnston’s community by unknown gunmen while sometime after 1 PM also on that day, Rogers was shot in his home in Old Road by a lone gunman. 

On the day before (Wednesday), sometime after 7 PM Amory, who is also known as ‘Money’ or ‘Stiff Jacket’, of Ponds Pasture, was shot by a lone gunman in Sandy Point while playing dominoes and he died at the scene. 

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