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Uranus Cabral used a bandana to cover his head as he is escorted to prison on Friday, Jan. 17, 2024.
Uranus Cabral used a bandana to cover his head as he is escorted to prison on Friday, Jan. 17, 2024.
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A Glen man who murdered a man who asked about his identity when he walked by dressed in black at night in Fountain will spend 39 years in prison.

Uranus Cabral aka Ranie, 34, was convicted of murder during a trial in which the main witness was a relative to whom he had confessed the crime.

Justice Rickie Burnett handed down the sentence on Friday at High Court No. 2, in Kingstown, for the Aug. 19, 2019, shooting death of Marcus Corridon, 49, of Belair.

On Aug. 19, 2019, sometime after 7 p.m., Corridon and friends were socialising at Darron’s Bridge Bar at the entrance of Fountain Gap, close to the Vigie Highway.

Corridon had gone to the bathroom when a man whom witnesses described as “strange” passed by.

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The man was dressed in all black – a black long-sleeve shirt, black pants, a black hat pulled down on his face and a red handkerchief in his back pocket.

The patron discussed the man’s appearance with Corridon when he returned from the bathroom.

Corridon told them that he was going home and would return shortly and drove off in his vehicle.

The witnesses saw Corridon’s vehicle travelling slowly in the direction that the strange man had walked.

One witness testified that it appeared that Corridon and the strange man were having a conversation as Corridon’s vehicle drove slowly alongside him.

Shortly after, when the strange man and Corridon’s vehicle were both out of sight, the witnesses heard a loud explosion sounding like a gunshot coming from the same direction in which the strange man and Corridon had gone.

People responded and went in the direction of the gunshot, but the area was poorly lit.

MArcus Corridon
The deceased, Marcus Corridon.

They saw Corridon’s vehicle slanted in the road with the driver’s door open and the passenger side glass down.

However, Corridon was not in the vehicle nor was the strange man there.  

The people eventually found Corridon lying in a ditch nearby and the police, Corridon’s brother and others placed him in a police vehicle, which transported him to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital.

Corridon died that same night. A post mortem concluded that he died of a gunshot wound to the chest, with the bullet entering the front left side of the chest and exiting the back.

‘gun pon cock’

The day after the murder, Cabral returned to his home in Glen which he occupied with a relative, who he told about the killing.

During the trial, the relative, who testified via video link, said Cabral had told him that he was going to tell him something that he did not want to hear from anyone.

The witness testified that Cabral told him that he was on his way to Belair to sleep at his girlfriend’s place.

On his way, he met some people at Darren’s bar, who wanted to know who he was because of the way he was dressed.

Cabral’s relative’s description of Cabral’s dress court matched the one described by the people who had seen him walk pass the bar the night of the killing.

The relative told the court that Cabral said that one of the men got into his vehicle, put on the headlights and started to follow him.

The make of the vehicle identified by the witness was the same as the one that Corridon owned.

The witness said Cabral told him that he was on the right-hand side of the road to the gutter and there was a gutter on the side of the road.

The witness told the court Cabral said that the man in the vehicle got close to him and began asking, “Boy, who you be?”

Cabral continued walking and the man stopped the vehicle on the right side of the road, came out, left the door open and started to approach him, the witness said.

“He done get his gun pon cock. He just tek it out and as the man was going to hold on his left shoulder to spin his around, he didn’t give the man no chance to hold on and grab him,” Cabral relative testified.

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Uranus Cabral in a photo that police published on Facebook on May 5, 2021

“He turn around … instantly and point the gun to the left side of the man’s chest close range and give the man one in his chest — the left side of his chest.”

The witness said Cabral told him that after he shot the man, the man fell into a gutter.

“… he watch the man till he make like his last breath so he say he left him there and he started to walk and he take off his cap, hoodie and stay in the white t-shirt that he had under the hoodie. He wrap them up in his hand and go his way towards his girlfriend residence,” the witness told the court.

Witnesses feared Cabral

However, the witness did not report the matter to the police immediately, saying that Cabral had said if he heard anything about the killing he would know it was his relative who had spoken about it.

Cabral’s relative would later realise that Corridon was the person who Cabral had killed.

The relative, however, did not say anything or report the matter to the police as he was afraid that Cabral would harm him if he did so.

As police continued the investigation into Corridon’s death, they arrested Cabral on Dec. 13, 2019, and conducted an audio-visual interview with him.

Cabral did not say anything in the interview and was released pending further investigation.

The investigation continued and two people gave the police information suggesting a link between Cabral and the killing. However, they declined to give a written statement to police out of fear of Cabral.

In 2021, the relative who Cabral had told about the killing gave police a statement and Cabral was arrested again and investigators conducted another interview with him

He denied shooting Corridon or having anything to do with Corridon’s death but admitted to owning a firearm.

Cabral told the police that he had a shotgun in the mountains.

Cabral was charged with murder and his trial began on Sept. 30, 2024. On Oct. 18, 2024, a jury found him guilty of murder.

He was also convicted of use of a firearm to aid in the commission of an offence.

Counsel Renee Simmons appeared for the Crown while Michael Wyllie represented Cabral. 

5 replies on “Killer to serve 39 years for murdering man who asked who he was”

  1. We need to bring back the death penalty for killers like this guy. We must begin to unalive persons like him. St. Vincent and the Grenadines, population is about one hundred thousand at most, if killers like him get the opportunity, he will kill all of us in this country. Dr. Alston Becket Cyrus says love is the answer. But love cannot be the answer for everything. Believe it or not, the death penalty can be the answer, to the murder problem we are having in this country. A lot of Vincentians believe that America is the greatest country. But is it a good country? I don’t think so.Where are all these guns coming from? That are killing our Vincentian and Caribbean people almost everyday. They are coming from America. America is the country that exporting to countries around the globe. Many Vincentians believe that Russia and China are bad countries but they are not exporting guns, to the rest of the world to kill themselves.You know what? Seriously, we need to bring back the death penalty for these wicked killers.

  2. If it was left to our RSPF alone he would have been a frre man. We are yet to make an arrest for rhe mass shooting in Kingstown two years ago.

  3. Another waste of two lives, firstly RIEP the man he shot and now he will rightly spend the rest of his life reflecting, but somehow i doubt it ??? killing someone that easy one can only think he’s done it before ?? just this time HIM GET KETCH

  4. I am not condoning the killing of Corodon as a matter of fact, he should have been given more years. However, why Corodon acted in the manner he did as ih was the village police? Why he did not leave Cabral alone? He instigated the act and is therefore the author of his own misfortunes. I commended the [relative] to contact the police. It shows that a secret is never between more than one person.

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