http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Gue ... 73601.htmlGuerra’s widow slain
By Gyasi Gonzales
gyasi.gonzales@trinidadexpress.comStory Created: May 11, 2013 at 9:22 PM ECT
Story Updated: May 11, 2013 at 9:58 PM ECT
ON the eve of Mother’s Day, Beverly Nurse—the wife of murdered gang leader Mark Guerra—was gunned down as she stood in front of a parlour below her Beverly Hills, John John home yesterday.
Her killing was one of two murders in the east Port of Spain area yesterday afternoon.
Nurse was killed at 2.30 p.m. when a man walked up behind her and shot her once to the back of the head, killing the 38-year-old mother of eight on the spot.
At the time Nurse was wearing a scarf tied around her head, a pair of jeans and a blouse, police said.
Her murder attracted onlookers who flocked to the scene after news of Nurse’s death spread through the community.
Several heavily armed police were on the scene along with soldiers.
With several marked and unmarked police vehicles on the scene motorists heading east along the roadway which leads to the Eastern Main Road slowed down to take in what was happening. The police moved motorists along and secured the crime scene until officers of the Crime Scene Unit arrived.
Apart from officers of the Besson Street CID, also present were investigators from the Homicide Bureau, the Crime Scene Unit and the Port of Spain Divisional Task Force.
In a separate incident minutes later, two teenagers, Nigel Hypolite, 19, and his friend, Jesse Chris, 17, were shot several times as they collected scrap iron from two burnt out houses at Clifton Hill in Beverly Hills.
Hypolite died on the spot while Chris was taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital where he was treated.
The killings brought the murder toll for the year so far to 132 according to an Express count.
The police could not say if the murder of Nurse and Hypolite were related.
Just last week, Nurse’s boyfriend—a former murder accused—was shot several times as he stood speaking to her at her John John home.
The victim, Jovan Maxwell, 26, lives at Pelican Extension in Morvant and police said on May 2 at 9.30 p.m. Maxwell and Nurse were standing in the yard of the house located at the entrance to Picton Road when two men stopped near the house in a car. One of them got out and opened fire, hitting Maxwell several times about the body.
The gunmen escaped. Maxwell was taken to Port of Spain General Hospital where he remains in stable condition.
In 2012, at the Port of Spain Hall of Justice, Maxwell was freed by a 12-member jury of the August 23, 2004 murder of Darryl Lewis in Morvant.
In his defence, Maxwell claimed he was framed and the police had something against people from the Morvant community.
Nurse’s husband Mark Guerra was murdered at his Wallerfield farm in March 2003 by a killer who stood over his body and shot him several times using an AK 47 assault rifle, while his younger brother, Marvin Guerra, was murdered near his Rodney Street, Laventille home in February this year.
Enquiries are ongoing.
Hours before yesterday afternoon’s murders, acting Commissioner of Police, Stephen Williams spoke confidently about the police force’s ability to reduce the level of violent crime throughout Trinidad and Tobago by providing the necessary support for his troops on the field.
Williams was the feature speaker yesterday during the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Sports and Family Day event held at the Police Training Academy in St James.
