Regent St vendor dies from multiple bullet wounds

Keron Herbert

The Regent Street vendor who was shot several times on Saturday night succumbed to his injuries yesterday afternoon and his family is pleading with the police not to let the murder become another unsolved case.

On Saturday night, the police had said that investigations were being conducted into an incident at the Vendors Arcade, Regent Street, Georgetown where Keron Herbert, (the police release had both names spelt incorrectly) , 29 years, of East La Penitence, Georgetown, was shot to his buttocks while closing his stall around 8 pm.

However, Herbert’s father, Kenneth Herbert told Stabroek News yesterday that his son was shot five times. “He was shot once to the back of his neck, once at his side around his abdominals, one to his kidney which he lost, one to his leg, and one to his back,” Kenneth said, adding that he