Trevor Rose, 32 year old, popular Guyanese designer and events coordinator, was gunned down execution style while on his way to Eccles early yesterday morning.
The other injured persons in the car were identified as Trevor Nieuinkirk, 30, a taxi driver and the mother of Rose’s two-year-old son, Latoya Towler, 29. Towler was reportedly shot to the buttocks while Nieuinkirk sustained a gunshot wound to his left arm.
Trevor Rose was a three-time designer of the year. He started his designing career by designing costumes. He has represented Guyana in Jamaica and other Caribbean territories as a costume designer.
During this time, he met another renowned designer, Michelle Cole and they joined forces and designed a number of floats for corporate entities such as Digicel, Banks DIH and various government ministries.
Rose and Cole later married but after a few years of marriage, they separated.
Rose recently worked with Pulse Entertainment on several events before parting way with that group. He was a socialite who also had contracts with several other very popular promotional groups.
In February last, two gunmen snatched $2.5 million from Rose after invading the Bank DIH Mash camp at Burnham Court, Middle and Carmichael streets, Georgetown.
It was reported that Rose was about to enter one of the tents when two men approached him and grabbed his haversack containing U.S. and local currency. Rose at the time did not realise that the men were armed, so he held onto the haversack, but released it when one of the bandits placed a gun to his chest.