Monday, February 23, 2009
TWO men are in hospital after separate shooting incidents on Monday. According to police, a phone card vendor was robbed and shot in the abdomen by another man armed with a handgun shortly after 7pm. The victim was selling phone cards in the area of East Street and Ridgeland Park East, according to police, who said the gunman escaped with an undetermined amount of cash and phone cards.
The vendor was taken to hospital by ambulance and is in serious condition.
The second shooting occurred less than two hours later in the area of Market Street and Wulff Road.
A 25-year-old man was shot in the arm while walking on Wulff Road, according to police, who said the Black Village resident is now in stable condition at hospital.
POLICE are questioning seven Abaco men in connection with a recent murder on the island.
Investigators have identified the 22-year-old Abaco man whose body was found riddled with bullets as Stanley McIntosh of East Bay Street, Marsh Harbour.
According to reports, Mr McIntosh was found near the Solid Gold Bar on Don McKay Boulevard shortly before 5am on Sunday. Investigations continue.
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