By CECILY ASSON Monday, September 6 2010

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DEATH SCENE: Crime scene investigators surround the bodies of Gary Shaw, inside the vehicle, and Anderson Edmund, on a stretcher. The two were shot an...

INVESTIGATORS believe security cameras installed at a Penal business place could assist in solving the murders of off- shore worker Gary Shah, 35 and his nephew Anderson Edmund, 21, whose bullet riddled bodies were found in a gold Mazda 323 motor car in Penal yesterday. The cameras are installed on a building near the murder scene.

Shah, a father of four, of Gransaul Street, San Fernando, was found slumped over the steering wheel of the motor car while Edmund, a labourer, of Lodge Road, Claxton Bay, was seated in the front passenger seat. Their bodies bore several gunshot wounds to the head, eyes, throat, hands and other parts. Police believe the men, were shot at close range. There were two bullet holes in the car door.

Police are yet to establish a motive for the killings and have not yet ruled out robbery. They said they were unaware of a report that the men were involved in an altercation at a Penal bar and were threatened by a bouncer.

According to the police, at about 3.30 am, officers from the Penal Police Station responded to a report that a car with two occupants was parked across the middle of the SS Erin Main Road between Bownath and Ramjattan Trace in Penal. Police officers who arrived on the scene found the bullet riddled bodies of the men in the vehicle.

The area was cordoned off for several hours as officers from the Southern Homicide Bureau, crime scene investigators and the South Western Division carried out investigations. Traffic had to be diverted.

The District Medical Officer viewed the bodies and ordered them removed to the mortuary of the San Fernando General Hospital.

The bodies will be transferred to the Forensic Science Centre today where autopsies will be performed. Several relatives of the murdered men broke down yesterday morning at the scene of the crime. Shah’s wife, Reshma, and Edmund’s mother, Joy, a nurse at the San Fernando General Hospital were inconsolable and had to be comforted by relatives. The women collapsed after viewing the bodies of the men. Relatives called for swift justice for their loved ones since they said it had nothing to do with any illegal activities.

“It is just an uncle and a nephew going out on an ordinary weekend lime,” one grieving male relative said. “These men not on any stupidness.” Edmund’s dream, the relative said, was to be a soldier and he was working toward being enlisted in the army, while Shah worked hard to support his wife and four children.

Relatives said they were told that earlier in the night, Shah and Edmund had an altercation at a bar and a bouncer identified as a police officer had threatened their lives. “We don’t know if what we hear is true, but we hear is the same man who come and kill them.

“We don’t want no cover-up in this matter.”

Cousin Candice Mohammed, 23, said, “It is ridiculous — the killers should be held and punished to the full extent of the law.”

Homicide officers are continuing investigations.