By Nigel Williams
A policeman yesterday morning shot dead a Riverview, Ruimveldt fisherman, accus-ed of stealing a generator and other items from a liquor bar, but residents said the man committed no such act and chided the police for unnecessarily using deadly force.
Dead is Felix Da Silva, 27, a father of four who was fatally shot in the chest after allegations that he broke into Edward Farley’s liquor bar on the Ruimveldt Public Road sometime on Sunday night. But the dead man’s relatives said he did no such thing and they accused the police of committing murder. In a statement issued hours after the shooting, police said that while conducting investigations into a report of burglary committed on a grocery shop and beer garden at Riverview, Ruimveldt yesterday morning there was an armed confrontation between Da Silva and the police resulting in him being fatally shot.
