Good riddence!! Now to investigate the lawyer that rented his home to known criminals...something sketchy going on there.

Any lawyer found to have been knowingly renting a house they directly or indirectly own to known low-life criminal thugs should be disbarred without the need for lengthy investigatory or other disciplinary actions of any kind.

Well the police said they went there "acting on information" Maybe he rented the house and then tip the police off

From what I have read in news reports and on social media one or more of these men were known, wanted prolific criminals. Our crime problem is a multifaceted one, long in the making with no easy quick fixes. This needs to be tacked systematically and intelligently with the will to see it through. There are short term and longer term measures drastically needed.

In the short term there needs to be a task force created whose sole aim is to target prolific, career violent criminals. These persons should be under 24 hr surveillance and the moment they slip up, arrested. New Providence is too small to hide, these persons are already well known to police. A most wanted list of 100 of these individuals should be on the commissioner’s desk each morning. As they are killed or incarcerated, struck off the list and another name added. You remove the 100 most hardened criminals from our streets and crime would fall drastically overnight. It is simply unacceptable for us to allow a small group of thugs to terrorize the Bahamian public and jeopardize our way of life.

Our judiciary deserves a lot of the blame as well. Handing out far too lenient sentences for very violent crimes. Our sentencing guidelines need to be much more severe and the judiciary reformed to ensure that these chronic offenders are not quickly released to commit crime again. There is so much more but these two measures would be a great start.

This makes too much sense for them...great points all around.

you remove one and another 10 ready to take his place. poverty and extremely high cost of living in the bahamas are the main contributor. these young men would happily take a legit well paying job but they cant get one... as there aren't many. and i mean well paying like $800 a week not $185 p/w no one can live off that.

$800 per week? and he can't spell eight hundred LMAO

where cn i get this 800 per week job?

Very few trained career civil servants make $800 per week (maybe 20%) ........ But you make a good point that many youth want to make money without doing the time/training ......... So they become criminals and die like street dogs.

So the police goes in search of one murder suspect and kills THREE. Happy Hunting!

Hauled off a few more as well. Apparently action continued around Blair through the morning with police chasing various vehicles.

I don't want to sound like I am taking the criminals side because something have to be done with crimes in the Bahamas. However, how do the police show up at a house for a criminal and you have three armed males and all three of them got picked off by the cops and the cops walk out injury free? Either those criminals are lousy with guns or the police got trained by the Israeli military, because it don't sound plausible for this to happened just like that.

ok. you go up against police with training and experience and multiple weapons, unlimited ammunition when all you got is a hand gun with maybe 2 or 3 magazines... lets see what happens.

When a person want to believe a story they would come up with anything. When the police enter the resident, they dont know where the people are, so at least one of them had a slight advantage because they would know where the police are. Now you can make the case that the police caught them off guard sleeping, but to admight that you would be saying the cops killed them and found guns on the scene. Besides the criminals have more dangerous weapons than the cops.

So a defense force officer allegedly goes to government house, apparently unarmed. There are 6-8 officers stationed there and this marine allegedly sneaks in on them, steals one of their weapons, shoots up the place and kills a senior officer hitting him multiple times. The shooter escapes the compound unarmed and unharmed and none of the other officers receives injuries. The shooter then escapes. And what was all that action in the skies about that night? Who killed Sir Harry Oakes?

Element of surprise, the police came in with a swift tactical thought out plan, probably woke some of the fellas out of their sleep, likely sitting ducks trying to figure out what the heck was going on while bullets were zipping past their heads.

This is what I believe happened, the cops came in caught them sleeping and shoot and killed first, guns was on the scene so they fudge the story a little.

Ain't feel no weight either way. They were wanted for murder. Street justice

Until they kill a boy who just walking home. Like they did the other day. Shot in the back. We love the police but we dont want them exacting the justice THEY believe is warranted

I agree with you. This story don't sound right.

"*happened at a large pink residence with white trim on Newgate Road off the Eastern Road.*"

Why we hafta know all of that? It sounds like gossip.

"*After the incident, a police van left the area with what appeared to be about several children no older than 12 inside. The van returned several minutes later but soon left again with a light skinned man inside.*"

What type of story is that :-

The police probably made this sound more nefarious than it probably was. It's quite possible these men had no idea this was the police. Its possible they thought it was someone trying to rob them. I dont think people need to be gunned down in a house like this. Remember the lady whose house they mistakenly entered while she was naked just out the shower? And they wouldn't allow her to get dressed? Pic is still up on the tribune site.

Criminals need to be taken off the street but they dont have to be gunned down like this.

The reporter wanted to make the point that this house belonged to a prominent person in the community ........ for public embarrassment.(?)

MONKEY ONCLE...!!!!!.....EPIPHANY.....!!!!!.....WELL SLAM BAM SANDWICH......!!!!!........SHOCKED....!!!!.........DIDNT KNOW OUR BEST POLICE....HAS TO PROTECTAN SHOOT........ANYONE BUT PORE PEOPLE LIVING IN ERRY GHETTO ERRY JUK JUK CORNER....RAID PORE PEOPLES AREAS.......WELL MUDDOES.....EASTERN ROAD AREA......WELL MUDDA SIC DRED....!!!!!....DIS INCIDENT MUSSEY BEEN HISTORIC OCCURING ...IN DA EASTERN ROAD AREA....

The light skin man taken from the house could have been a Konky Joe as a white Bahamian is called in Nassau.

The interest is that the police were fired on three times, and were not harmed..