Victim was repeatedly warned to stay away from man says sister

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS 

Tribune Staff Reporter 

lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

THE sister of Maigen Bethel, one of three people killed over the weekend, said their mother had repeatedly warned the woman to stay away from a man allegedly involved in a conflict that led to her death.

Maigen was killed after visiting a man’s residence on Vinspen Road, off Cowpwn Road, on Friday night along with her best friend and another sibling. Police said when the women confronted an adult man and woman in the home, the man produced a firearm and fatally shot Maigen. Four women and one man remained in custody up to press time yesterday.

Police also said that on Saturday, around 3pm, two brothers were inside a Nissan Note at the intersection of Sir Milo Butler Highway and Carmichael Road when they got into an altercation. The younger brother assaulted his older brother to the head with an object and exited the vehicle on foot. The 43-year-old reportedly pursued the younger brother and fatally struck him with his car.

In the third incident, a 38-year-old victim, an employee of Jet Nassau on Coral Harbour Road, arrived at work and was approached and shot multiple times by the occupant of a white Nissan Note. Police later arrested a 25-year-old man from Fire Trail Road in the departure lounge of the domestic terminal at the Lynden Pindling International Airport in connection to the matter.

The killings brought the murder tally for the year to 57. 

Shanti Clarke said her sister, Maigen, celebrated her 23rd birthday on June 10 and leaves behind a four- year-old daughter.

She said yesterday: “I was angry and sad at the same time because to know that she went there knowing that mom told her not to fool with this and leave this boy alone.

“We don’t know exactly what transpired at the scene, but the only thing that was going through my mind was why? Why would she go there? That’s not her.

“Like she let this boy take her out of character. That’s not you. We don’t fight. We don’t carry on like that. She is not a street girl, that’s not her, she doesn’t fight and carry on. From she was in school she never been in problems, never been to the office, mommy never had problems with her until she came out of school and was dealing with this boy.”

“I just hope they get to the end of this and justice is served because she doesn’t deserve what she went through and yes she was wrong for going into his home but that still doesn’t give him the right to pull a gun and take her life. Because now a four-year-old is living without a mother and a daddy.                     

“I wish she did just came to me about it like she went to my other sister. I would’ve probably talked her out of it, going to that guy house, because it wasn’t worth it. Trust, it was not worth it is going there.”

She said Maigen shared a unique bond with her daughter, who does not know her mother is dead.

“Maigen loved her child to death,” she said. “She doesn’t even let her baby out her eyesight and for her to just go and do something like that without your child, something really had to happen for her to go and do something like that or going through her mind.”

Ms Clarke said she turned off Facebook notifications to avoid discourse about her sister’s death.

“I don’t want to hear it. If it’s negative, I don’t want to hear it because that’s not doing nothing, that’s not bringing her back, that’s not doing no justice for her,” she said.

EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story stated that the location of the third incident was Odyssey Aviation. This was incorrect. The story has been updated accordingly. We apologise for the error.