Two separate shooting incidents in St. Vincent on Wednesday resulted in fatalities, including a man recently released from prison for a disturbing attempted rape case. The killings mark the third homicide within 48 hours, elevating the nation’s murder count to 10 for the year—already reaching one-quarter of 2025’s total.
Sebastian John, a 57-year-old welder from Ottley Hall, was fatally shot in the West Kingstown community shortly after 3 p.m. John had served a seven-year prison sentence imposed in March 2023 for attempting to assault a three-year-old girl in 2018. According to trial records, the child’s grandmother discovered John naked from the waist down, holding his penis, inside the toddler’s bedroom at approximately 12:45 a.m. on August 19, 2018.
Hours after John’s killing, another shooting occurred in Lowmans Hill, another West Kingstown community, around 8 p.m. Sources identified the victim as Collis Charles, also known as ‘Brain,’ a 33-year-old farmer from the area.
Law enforcement authorities have not officially commented on either shooting or confirmed the victims’ identities. These incidents follow Monday’s chopping death of Munti ‘Munt-I’ Thomas in Barrouallie, for which 41-year-old Keon Dennie has been charged with murder and appeared before the Serious Offences Court in Kingstown.