A 24-year-old Chauncey man was killed in a hail of bullets on the property of the Catholic Pastoral Centre in Edinboro after an attack that began on the roadside nearby, where scores of students were awaiting transportation shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday.
Carl Quow’s attackers pursued him almost to the edge of the precipice overlooking the sea, where they ended his life in an attack that left a student injured when a bullet grazed his arm.
The student and his schoolmates from JP Eustace Memorial Secondary School, located close to the scene of the attack, were awaiting transportation home when the shooting began.
He was taken to hospital and treated and discharged.
iWitness News was reliably informed that the shooting shook up a priest who had just returned to the centre, as he thought that he was the target of the gunfire, as the assailants pursued Quow onto the grounds.
Police recovered several spent shells at the scene, including about five on the road where the shooting began.
Quow had been living in Edinboro for some time before his death.
A well-placed source told iWitness News that Quow has been identified as a suspect in connection with the July 24, 2024, shooting death of Romario Bynoe aka Stormy, 26, of Argyle.
Bynoe was gunned down and his girlfriend, Annette Frederick, was shot in her legs at the side of Level Garden-McKies Hill bypass road, two days after Bynoe told his father he had received a death threat.
Bynoe was killed while waiting for help after a rented car he was driving ran off the road in McKies Hill.
He had telephoned his girlfriend, telling her about the accident and that he could not pick up her child, as planned.
He also called the vehicle owner, who said they would attend the scene and had been waiting along the side of the road for more than 45 minutes when he was shot.
By the time the shooting occurred, his girlfriend had picked up the child and gone to the scene of the accident where she and Bynoe would be shot around 5:30 p.m.
Quow was no stranger to news headlines.
In August 2022, when Quow was living in Chauncey, the Serious Offences Court jailed him for one year and five months for putting a gun to a 16-year-old villager’s side and telling him, “Yo nah bad now? Yo nah geh mouth now?”
The July 23, 2022, incident had left two other students shaken, with one running from Chauncey to his home in the neighbouring village of Rillan Hill.
In mitigation, Quow had told the court that he had joined the Cadet Force at Grammar School as the Family Court had ordered after he was convicted, as a minor, for theft but had remained enrolled only for “a couple months”.
He had said that he had left Bethel High School at Form 1, was working as a labourer and living with his father in Chauncey.
In June 2022, Quow and 22-year-old Anil Greaves, a delivery clerk of Belair, were jointly charged with possession of a homemade firearm at Belair on June 3, 2022.
In September 2023, Quow was fined EC$800 for possession of 4.5 grams of cocaine in Chauncey.
Quow’s death is the fourth homicide in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2025.
Alas the chickens came home to roost.