A Rose Hall man was shot and killed in Petit Bordel Friday night, 20 years after his father was stabbed and killed there.
The dead man has been identified as Stanran Stapleton aka Standpide, of Rose Hall, who moved between both North Leeward communities.
iWitness News was reliably informed that Stapleton was shot in the chest and back and investigators retrieved multiple spent shells from the scene in Plan, Petit Bordel.
The death brings the homicide count this year to 31 and comes two weeks after Jawanza Sanga Fraser was shot and killed in Kingstown.
Stapleton is the son of Pierre Charles, who died in Petit Bordel, his home village, after being chopped by villager James Francois in 2004.
Francois was sentenced to eight years in prison for Charles’ death.
His lawyer, Stephen Williams had begged for leniency for his client, saying that Pierre had provoked and threatened Francois.
The lawyer said Francois was at a shop when he got involved in a dispute with another man and Pierre intervened.
Pierre later sustained cutlass wounds and died.
Williams said Francois was “not a man of a violent nature” and that the offence was a “one-off transaction”.
However, on June 15, 2004, Francois was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in relation to Charles’ death.
Then, in July 2023, Francois, 53, was jailed for eight years in prison in connection with the Feb. 28, 2020 death of fellow villager, Edward Lavia.