00:00To celebrate her friend's 8th year birthday, Quinton Markano left her Maraval home and
00:06journeyed to Rochard Road, Pinal, as was customary whenever they had gatherings.
00:12On Sunday, they cooked duck and provision.
00:15There was a prayer service, and that evening, about five of them sat on chairs chatting
00:20at the front of the home where Markano was killed.
00:23And we heard gunshot rang out, and my cousin say, it's gun, it's shooting, it's shooting,
00:31it's shooting a gun, it's shooting a gun, run.
00:34And everybody run from the road, right, and when we turn around now, we see she didn't
00:41come off the chair, so we go and call on she, call on she.
00:46So I say she must be faint or something, and when we call on she now, everybody started
00:52to bawl because we see blood coming on she clothes, and when she neck turn, we see that
00:57she had a bullet hole in her neck.
01:02Markano was rushed to the Separia Health Facility, but she was pronounced dead on arrival there.
01:08The woman whose birthday was being celebrated says she was in the gallery when the shooting
01:13occurred.
01:14So as we talk, you know, I hear this gunshot, and I'm telling them, I say, what, the shooting
01:19up again, this gunshot, I tell you, I hear this gun, I always hear gunshot, you know,
01:25this is a gunshot, people always, they're always shooting, I think, and I say, gunshot
01:30again, and then I hear they start to bawl, going down the step, and my son say, mommy,
01:35no, no, you can't go, you can't go, I say, they say Tusi now get shot, I say, I want
01:40to see Tusi now, he say, no, mommy, you can't see Tusi now, you can't see Tusi now.
01:48I can't see Tusi now, mommy.
01:54According to police reports, around 5.30 p.m. on Sunday, gunshots were heard from across
01:59the road, and a man wearing a black ski mask was seen running from the scene.
02:04Residents say they have no idea who or if anyone was specifically targeted, but were
02:09outraged that a stray bullet left their close friend dead.
02:14They called for justice and for young people to put down the guns and turn away from a
02:19life of crime.
02:44Cindy Raghuban Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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