‘Crimo’ shot to death in Pembroke Shell station

Put together yellow police tape, hundreds of curious onlookers, a shattered vehicle and of course the media, and what do you get? St Vincent and the Grenadines’ 19th homicide for the year.{{more}}

Dead is 28-year-old Paul’s Avenue labourer, Atiba “Crimo” Waldron.

The Pembroke community rang out with bullets shortly after 12:45 p.m. last week Thursday, August 28, 2008, leaving Waldron with several bullet wounds about his body.

Police reports state that the deceased and two other men were traveling in motor vehicle RQ549 when they pulled up at the Shell Gas Station to take fuel. While there, one of the men got out and went to the grocery store nearby when a tinted Toyota Sprinter pulled up alongside the vehicle. two men alighted and sprayed the car with bullets.



Waldron, who was shot while in the vehicle, tried to flee the scene, but was shot several times after. When police arrived on the scene he was met lying face down in a pool of blood. He was pronounced dead on the spot.

The other occupant who was in the vehicle at the time only sustained minor cuts from the shattered glass. No one has as yet been arrested for Waldron’s murder and investigations are continuing into the matter.

Waldron had been released on bail from the High Court on a robbery matter about two weeks prior to his death.

In 2007, Waldron had been acquitted at the High Court for the double murders of Brian “Free-I” Lewis and George “Nikki” Browne. Waldron was set free after Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle upheld a no-case submission.

Lewis and Browne had their lives snatched from them on October 8, 2005 at about 3 p.m., when a jeep, with license plate RL734 pulled up alongside them at Rose Place and opened gunfire. Both men died on the spot.(KW)