A man who was recently released from prison, three years after he was caught outside a 3-year-old girl’s bedroom with his penis in his hand, was among two people shot and killed in separate incidents in St. Vincent on Wednesday.
The man, Sebastian John, a 57-year-old welder, of Ottley Hall, was gunned down in the West Kingstown community sometime after three 3 p.m.
The circumstances surrounding the killing are not known, but it came hours before another man was shot and killed in Lowmans Hill, another West Kingstown community, around 8 p.m.
Police are yet to comment on the killings or identify the victims. However, sources have identified the Lowmans Hill shooting victim as Collis Charles aka Brain, a 33-year-old farmer, of Lowmans Hill.
The killings bring to three the number of people slain in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in two days, taking the homicide count this year to 10 — one quarter of the 2025 total.
The killings on Wednesday came hours after Keon Dennie, 41, of Barrouallie, appeared before the Serious Offences Court, in Kingstown, charged with murder over Monday’s chopping death of Munti “Munt-I” Thomas in Barrouallie.
In March 2023, then Senior Magistrate Rickie jailed John for seven years for attempted rape.
John was found guilty of a charge that on Aug. 19, 2018, at Ottley Hall, he entered the dwelling house of Eucina Porter as a trespasser with intent to commit an offence, to wit assault.
The facts of the case, as they emerged at the trial, were that Porter, then 58, lived in a one-story house, which had wooden windows and doors, including a door to the back of the house.
The property was fenced by hedges and a concrete perimeter wall.
Porter knows John very well as they are neighbours.
On Aug. 18, 2018, about 9 p.m., Porter put her 3-year-old granddaughter to sleep in a bedroom and then went into the bedroom located opposite the toddler’s room.
Both rooms were separated by a wooden door.
Four hours later, about 12:45 a.m., the following day, Porter opened the bedroom door to check on the child. The light was on and Porter saw John standing in the child’s room.
John was naked from the waist down and was holding his penis in his right hand.
Porter recognised John and, addressing him by his nickname, said, “Bassy way the f*** you doing in my house? Way you doing here? Who invite you?”
John responded, “O Gard! Ah sorry! Ah sorry!”
He then exited the house through a door at the back.
The matter was reported to the police and John was arrested but denied the allegation.
Very graphic, IWN is going to the dogs; it is turning into a tabloid paper a la National Enquirer