00:00Shumba James, a former state witness and suspect in other cases, who was detained under the recently concluded state of emergency,
00:08was one of two men shot dead by police while driving along the St. Mary's Moruga main road on Friday morning.
00:16The shooting happened opposite B's sports bar near Saunders Strasse, which is minutes away from the homes of both Shumba and the other man,
00:24identified as Barakpur father of one, Ryan Luchan.
00:28This was confirmed by ACP in charge of the TGPS's Southern Division, Wayne Meister.
00:34Around 9.45 a.m. on Moruga Road St. Mary's, two men well known to the police were fatally wounded during an exchange of gunfire by officers attached to the Southern Division task force.
00:48Both men were conveyed to the Princess Stonehill facility where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
00:53At the scene of the shooting on Friday, Shumba's father and others were left outraged over the killings.
00:59The police stopped the man in the week and executed it.
01:05They went and voted.
01:06I talked to my child this morning.
01:08Did they?
01:09Two of them.
01:10Executed the man.
01:11Executed the man on them way.
01:13And they're laughing.
01:14I'm Shumba's father.
01:15My child is a good man, girl.
01:18People are going to talk.
01:20They're going to talk.
01:22He says Shumba told him he was a special voter and was going to vote ahead of the April 28th general election.
01:29That's where he believes his son was coming from when he was killed.
01:33Shumba was a passenger in a gray Nissan Tida being driven by Luchan, his friend.
01:38Speaking to reporters, relatives of Luchan described him as hardworking and family-oriented.
01:44They said, like, and he will point, he says, he will all up, all over.
01:50And Ryan, I never know, he has no gunman and no badge on.
01:57Ryan is a quiet, loving fella.
02:00I could see and all.
02:01I know Shumba, James, as a good fella to me.
02:07I don't know if everybody here, this and that and whatever.
02:10He says both victims, while not frequently together, were schoolmates and knew each other from the village.
02:17He too called for a proper investigation into the circumstances surrounding the police killings.
02:23In August last year, Shumba did an exclusive interview with TV6 denying any involvement
02:29in the double murder of St. Mary's father and daughter Enrico and Anika Guerra.
02:34Former National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hines also issued the SOE's first detention order
02:41on Shumba back in January, identifying him as a credible suspect in various illegal activities.
02:48He was also a witness in the case against six police officers who were accused of murdering
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