Monday, April 30, 2012
By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
THE COUNTRY'S murder count rose to 42 over the weekend when a 31-year-old man was gunned down in front of his home.
Police say the victim was at his home on Eaton Street, Yellow Elder, around 11.55pm on Saturday when he was approached by a man wearing dark clothing. The victim was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigating officers have no leads at the moment and are appealing for help from members of the public.
Also over the weekend, a man was shot dead by police after pulling a handgun on them.
At around 11pm Friday night, police received a tip concerning the whereabouts of a man wanted for questioning in a robbery/shooting.
A team of officers went to Fleming Street and saw a man fitting his description.
According to Inspector Chrislyn Skippings, as they approached the man produced the handgun and the officers opened fire.
The man died at the scene and the officer recovered a handgun and a quantity of ammunition.
Active investigations continue.
Anyone with information about either incident is asked to call 911 or 919; CDU on 502-9991, Crime Stoppers on 328-TIPS; or visit their nearest police station.
Comments
TalRussell says...
Comrades our Bahamaland’s murder count rose to 42 over the weekend when a 31-year-old man was gunned down in front of his home, yet we are not to talk about it.
A bear will attack a man if they are surprised, feel they are in danger, wish protect territory or if they have clubs, but never the dead. Volchers, and now this FNM regime’s PM, feed upon the dead.
When you can’t defend your failed five years in power you first go after your own FNM MP’s, then attack the dead and his family. A long time ago I stopped throwing up my arms in the air trying to understand this little-minded man. How else can you govern a Bahamaland which has more in the hundreds varieties of murders than there is cheese, since he regained power back in 2007, and yet have big enough balls to complain about “truth’ campaign poster.
Really, are you telling me that this wealthland bunch of FNM’s are so quickly disturbed when the PLP posts “truth” campaign posters but not a word when the hundreds of their fellow natives murdered? If I was running the PLP campaign the hell with some poster. I would line the moneyland roads along the eastern road with the real face of our broken Bahamaland, with hundreds of casket, representing the hundreds of natives murdered since 2007, under their beloved fellow moneyland FNM regime. How long before the thugs reach the homes of the FNM moneylander’s?
Comrades while I’m all for the Cuckoos Rugby Club cementing their status as the dominant team in the Bahamas Rugby Football Union, you can rule the thousands of the hurting financially natives when it comes to them even considering the cementing of this PM’s FNM regime in another five years in power.
Posted 30 April 2012, 2:35 p.m. Suggest removal
conian says...
Why are these Murders taking place? Is it because of the Lifestyle these people showcase? Or is it because there is a bunch of people going around and randomly executing people ?
Posted 30 April 2012, 2:43 p.m. Suggest removal
BahamaSand says...
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers- Martin Luther King Jr.
Whether it's because of their lifestyle or not, taking another man life is not the decision to be made by we as human beings. God (whichever name you refer to the Highest One/All Knowing as) makes that decision. We need some real work to do as a COMMUNITY. That community being the HUMAN BEING community which resides in the country we call The Bahamas. Our politicians, religious leaders and others in the spot light aren't the ONLY ones to blame. We as a PEOPLE are to blame. How do we start though? How do we fix our country without the help of external international intervention? How do we secure our country food reserves? How do we stop the killing?
Just some things to think about...
Posted 30 April 2012, 7:21 p.m. Suggest removal
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