MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Four children have been left without a father following the murder of disc jockey Davian “Dippo” Anderson, 31, at a bar in Royal Flat, Manchester, on Sunday night.

Anderson, who had a fifth child underway, was shot dead and a 36-year-old woman wounded when gunmen attacked patrons at a bar in the community.

A police report said about 7:54 pm Anderson and the female patron were enjoying themselves at the bar when the facility was shot up by gunmen.

The injured people were taken to hospital where Anderson was pronounced dead and the woman admitted.

Anderson’s father, Peter, was distraught following the incident. “Mi cry, a suh it go, him gone already but not forgotten,” he said.

The elder Anderson said he raised three of his son’s children.

“He has his three kids here and the mother came for them on Sunday, so I said I wasn’t going to bother with any rice and peas, so I just fried two pieces of breadfruit and then lied down. When I got up in the night, two men called me and said Dippo got shot,” he said.

“A mi nice son. Him and him babymother broke up and I have the three kids here with me. I look about them myself. I know he works and I work, too, so if him inna anything, I don’t know. He dead lef the three kids here, ages 10, 6, and 4,” added the father.

Opposition spokesperson on national security and former Manchester Central Member of Parliament Peter Bunting said he knew Anderson well.

“When I came here years ago as an MP, he was one of the young people who approached me and said, ‘MP Bunting, I just need a start.’ I said what you interested in doing? He said he loves music, ‘If I could just get a laptop, that is all I need, and I am not looking back,” Bunting said at the People’s National Party’s Bellefield Divisional conference on Sunday evening.

“He got the laptop and Dippo became a fixture DJ at almost every political meeting. Even social gatherings at my home in Mandeville. He didn’t have an aggressive bone in his body and all he would talk about was his children and what he wanted to give to them,“ said Bunting. He said Dippo’s was the third murder in Manchester recently.

On April 26, the 2022 prime minister youth awardee for agriculture, Ceejay Cunningham, 29, was gunned down while tiling a house in Davyton, Manchester, and last Wednesday Kerrean Nicole Airy, 46, a bartender, was killed on her second day on the job in New Green, Manchester.

Mayor of Mandeville Donovan Mitchell said Anderson was his neighbour.

“I was born in this community. My house is just down the road. The community is mourning, because Dippo, as we know him, is a young man that was friendly to everybody. When you see him, all he is doing is laughing. I don’t know what has transpired or what happened, but the police are doing their investigations. We are asking anybody with any information to just talk to the police. Let the police do their work and let us bring peace and unity. If anybody knows anything, just speak to the police, because this is a relatively quiet community,” he said.