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Another City Killing – This One Of a "Gaza" Man
posted (April 30, 2012)
There were three murders countrywide this weekend - and we start with the most recent which happened yesterday evening in the city.

Brian Welch Requena known as "Yanki" or :Oregon" was killed on Faber's Road - a block away from where Lerone Johnson was killed three and a half weeks ago.

Like so many others we've reported on - this killing was no accident - the gunman pursued the 49 year old victim like prey.

We were there as police recovered the body and searched for clues. Here's the report.

Jules Vasquez reporting
Faber's road was blocked off and secured last night. As police laid evidence markers in the middle of the street finding a number of bullets but the body was 100 feet away, in the bushes where Police searched scraps of evidence of bullet fragments.

49 year old Brian Welch Requena died in a bushy area beside this home on Faber's Road.

Seems he ran from his shooter - who chased him from Faber's Road into the empty lot where he fell deal under a coconut tree - reportedly with a shot to the face.

It happened around 6:30 - half an hour later Police were still combing the area while the BDF stood guard though a huge crowd from the community gathered around - no one knew him from the area.

Police heaved the body unto the stretcher for its final trip - to the morgue.

He lived alone at this home on the Hattieville Boom Road.

Neighbors say that in just a few weeks - he was in conflict with many of them - and often boasted of being a part of The Gaza - a reference to the George Street Gang.

A report which also reached his landlord who says Welch Requena come to him a month ago begging for lodging.

Arthur Underwood - Landlord
"He told me that he didn't have anywhere to stay. I have a house on the Boom Road and I told him that he can stay there. I heard that he was causing a lot of trouble because they say that sometimes he lives on West and George Streets with the gangs. I don't understand it."

Jules Vasquez
"So he tells you about George Street and gangs and so?"

Arthur Underwood - Landlord
"He was playing bad-man out here."

No one knows if that reputation is what caught up to him yesterday evening on Faber's road - but from the look of it, his killer was determined to kill Brian Welch Requena.

No one has been arrested.

24 hours after yesterday evening's murder - the police press officer - moving at his trademark snail's pace -has just issued a press release with relevant information about our headline story.

It discloses that 49 year old BRIAN WELCH, was shot while walking with two friends. Police say he was walking with these two men, when another man approached and fired several shots at them. Only Welch was hit with shots to the mouth, chest, midsection and back.

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