Another Murder occurred on Monday 29th December 2014

Man shot and killed in Nassau Village has been identified as Randy Mcneil.

A man is dead after a shooting incident shortly after midnight.

#According to reports, a man was at a local bar at Matthew Street, Nassau Village when he got into an altercation with another man. The man then left the club walking home, when several gunshots were fired at him. The man received a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police can confirm that the victim was on bail and was being electronically monitored for a serious offence.

#Police are following significant leads into this matter and are appealing to members of the public to come forward with any information.

Man shot and killed Saturday 28th December 2014

A man shot and killed on Saturday December 28th 2014, He has been identified as
Mr. Arlington Butler aka Links.

A MAN who was fatally shot yesterday morning was out on bail on a firearm possession charge at the time of his death, Chief Superintendent Paul Rolle said yesterday.

#The victim was shot to death in Masons Addition on Sunday, one of three murders since last Wednesday that has pushed the death toll to 121, according to The Tribune’s records. This means that this year’s murder count has surpassed the 119 murders that police said were recorded in 2013.

#Mr Rolle said the 42-year-old Masons Addition resident had previously been shot while in the same area. The suspect in that shooting has since been murdered, Mr Rolle added.

#Mr Rolle made his statements at a press conference at the Central Detective Unit yesterday afternoon.

#While police still have no motive or no suspects in custody in connection with this latest homicide, Mr Rolle said he expected a formal identification on the victim to be released today.

#Meanwhile, police are also busy investigating two murders that took place last week, one of which took place on Christmas Eve.

#Regarding yesterday’s murder, Mr Rolle said that shortly after 7am the victim was sitting on a bench in the front of his home in Masons Addition when two men accosted him. One of the assailants reportedly produced a handgun and discharged multiple shots at the deceased.

#To escape the barrage of bullets, Mr Rolle said the victim reportedly ran to a neighbour’s home to seek refuge. Once there, and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, Mr Rolle said a neighbour took him to the Princess Margaret Hospital to seek medical attention.

#The victim was pronounced dead upon arrival.

#“We ask persons in the Masons Addition, Spencer Street area who may have information on this latest homicide to reach out to us so that we can advance this investigation,” Mr Rolle said yesterday.

#Police are also investigating a murder that occurred on Christmas Eve and another that occurred on Saturday.

#Regarding the Christmas Eve murder, reports are that shortly after 2pm last Wednesday the deceased was talking to another man on Dorsette Alley off Hospital Lane when a man pulled up on a trail motorbike and shot him multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

#There was an exchange of gunfire during the incident, police said. The suspect was also reportedly shot by the man who was with the victim. The suspect was taken to hospital in a private vehicle, where he is detained in serious condition under heavy police guard.

Man shot dead while walking on Saturday 27th 2014

A man was shot and killed he has been identified as 29 year old Samuel Riley.

POLICE are seeking the public’s help in solving a shooting incident that left a man dead on early on Saturday.

#According to reports, around 1:30am, the victim was walking on Carl Road off Claridge Road, when he was shot multiple times by a man who left the scene in a Nissan Sentra vehicle. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

#Investigations are ongoing.

#The murder count now stands at 120 for 2014, one more than last year's total.

Man shot and killed on Christmas Eve

A young man was shot and killed on Christmas Eve he has been identified as Lil Arthur Culmer.

An man is in hospital under heavy police guard following a shooting death on Christmas Eve.

#According to reports, shortly after 2:00pm on Wednesday, the victim was talking to another male on Dorsette Alley off Hospital Lane, when the suspect pulled up on a trail motorbike and shot him multiple times. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. During the incident, the suspect was also shot by the man who was with the victim. The suspect was transported to hospital via private vehicle, where he was detained in serious condition under heavy police guard.

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Missing Teenage girl found murdered on Sunday December 21st 2014

POLICE are investigating the homicide of a female, believed to be in her late teens, who was found dead off a dirt road in the Gladstone Road area.

#The teen’s body was found lying on the ground at the rear of a white Dodge Ram truck with no visible wounds, police said. The body was found some 300 feet from Gladstone Road, in a well field.

#On December 18, police said a 17-year-old girl of Bradley Street was reported missing by her family. According to police, the girl was last seen on December 16.

#It was reported that thieves abducted the teen, who was sitting inside a truck that was stolen last week, police said yesterday.

#When asked if the dead teenager was the missing girl, Acting Deputy Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said: “I don’t want to speculate, but we are looking at all avenues, all missing persons are included in our investigations.”

#Last night, he said police had not confirmed the girl’s identity.

#Mr Ferguson could not say if the truck found yesterday was stolen, adding that police were still doing inquiries about the vehicle.

#“Sometime around 5.30 this afternoon officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit, acting on information, travelled through a dirt road just north of Dignity Gardens approximately about a mile and a quarter through the bushes where they discovered a white truck,” he said at the scene. “Just at the rear of this truck lay the body of a young female (who) looked to be in her mid or late-teens.

#“The circumstances surrounding this discovery (are) unclear at the moment, but suffice it to say that she is deceased. From all indications we are investigating a homicide and we are appealing to members of the public who may have information about this female who was dressed in all black, we invite you to make a report to police.”

#The teen’s death brought the year’s murder count to 118, according to The Tribune’s records, one shy of the 119 murders recorded by police in 2013.

#Last Friday, a youth was shot dead off Kemp Road.

#Police said the youth, 19, was on Carib Road when someone in a Honda drove alongside him.

#Two men jumped out of the Honda and shot the victim multiple times, police said. He was taken to hospital, but was later pronounced dead.

Man shot and Killed on Carib St bringing the murder count to #117

A 19-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed early yesterday morning, taking the country’s murder count for the year to 117, two shy of 2013’s total.

#Officer in Charge of the Central Detective Unit, Superintendent Paul Rolle, said the victim, who The Tribune understands is Rico Smith, was on his way to work shortly before 7am when four men pulled alongside him off Carib Road in a Honda Accord.

#Two men exited the vehicle and “began discharging shots in the direction of the victim”. He was shot multiple times in the chest. The suspects got back into the vehicle and left the area in an unknown direction.

#Smith was rushed to hospital but died shortly after his arrival.

#Residents in the area were angry that Smith was allegedly “left to die on the ground” because the ambulance took to long to respond.

#One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Tribune she believed if the ambulance had arrived earlier, the victim would still be alive.

#“He comes through here every morning, he is a very mannerly young man. He was just walking and then you heard a bunch of shots back to back like fireworks.

#“Then I saw him and the ground and two men look like they jump a wall into a car and left. He was still breathing when the police and ambulance were called. His chest was moving up and down and he was making noises.

#“But that ambulance took so long, like almost 30 minutes, and he was just laying there.

#“We did not want to move him but we kept talking to him, we kept telling him he would be okay.

#“We prayed with him but then it’s like we saw when the last breath left his body and by the time the ambulance came, we knew he was gone.”

Police shot and Killed a young on Saturday 13th December 2014

POLICE Commissioner Ellison Greenslade railed against the release of prolific offenders on bail after a man was killed in a confrontation with two police officers.

#Mr Greenslade explained that the “relatively young” Bahamian man approached two on-duty police officers in an attempt to kill them sometime around 2:30am at Malcolm Road west on Saturday.

#However, one of the officers quickly drew his pistol and shot the suspect first.

#The man, who was said to have been known by police, was pronounced dead at the scene by Emergency Medical Services. The case will be turned over to the Coroner’s Court as a matter of priority, he said.

#Mr Greenslade said: “The young man had the ability to kill, had the propensity to kill and that young man was prepared to kill those two officers. I thank God that the officers were properly armed and properly trained and were able to in the face of that confrontation to react quickly and to neutralize the threat of harm to themselves.”

#Mr Greenslade said the outcome was the result of a change in police strategy more than two months ago that saw increased saturation patrols and specialized operations with armed uniform and undercover officers.

#He also added that the attempt on the life of police officers was not a new phenomenon as he recalled two separate attempts made on his life during his tenure.

#“The strategy delivered good results for us this (Saturday) morning,” he said, “thank God I don’t have two dead police officers this (Saturday) morning because while someone was assuming it was business as usual, I had two officers armed and in a place where a bad person did not expect.”

#“Everyone is fearful and you don’t want to put the wrong information out there,” he said, “this is not a new phenomenon.”

#“Evil is not a new phenomenon, if a person is evil, has run afoul of the law before, has murdered before, has spent time in prison before in a maximum security cell, and is back on our streets and is not prepared to change, a confrontation with such a person can be very violent.”

#Mr Greenslade said: “That is why we continue to train our officers properly, we ask them to use good judgment and we arm them. There are significant firearms out there.”

#“Anyone that takes on a police officer with an offensive instrument, a deadly instrument like an illegal gun, is making a bad decision.”

#Mr Greenslade spoke to the media at a press conference held at police headquarters on Saturday.

#“I don’t believe it’s a fair position to continue to ask the Commissioner and members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force,” he said, “what we are doing to stem the incidences of murder and grievous harm and serious crimes in this country, when we are arresting the perpetrators who are prolific serious offenders and we are taking them before the court, black and white with case files, and we see these people a short time later back on our streets.”

#Mr Greenslade pointed to the recent release of a gun trafficker by a Supreme Court judge last week, adding that senior officers were now on alert to rearrest given that the serious offender was back on the streets. He said he took a personal interest in the case when the suspect was initially arrested, and stressed that his file be managed carefully to ensure that everything was done properly.

#“This person was on bail for possession of four illegal pistols brought into this country,” he said.

#“A person in possession of four guns is a firearms trafficker. We charged that man and took him to court, he was remanded by the Magistrate’s court and I’m now doing my due diligence (Sunday) to find out what went wrong and where it went wrong, so that I might further brief my minister.”

#Mr Greenslade said: “That is not in the police domain and I’m not going to allow anyone to put that back in the police domain. What is unfortunate is that now we have a very significant problem, because I’m of the view if that guy had four guns, which we found, he probably has a lot more than that.

#“I cannot ignore that it’s a problem,” he said, “the public deserves more. It’s a problem.”

#Mr Greenslade added: “I’m not going to get into the arguments with anybody over numbers, I’m not going to get into any silly conversations to distract us the singular focus that I have, which is to follow the mandate given to us in law to prevent and detect crime, to apprehend offenders, to bring these people before the courts when they commit these crimes whether they’re misdemeanours or indictable offences. So what we’ll do is we’ll make the arrest again, and we’ll go back to court again, it’s as simple as that.”

Woman found murdered in Long Island her murder brought the count to #109

THE weekend murder of a popular web shop employee in Long Island has left residents there distraught after the usually peaceful community was disrupted by news of which none could make sense.

#When they arrived at her home in Deadman’s Cay just after 8am on Saturday, police found Andrea Carroll’s lifeless body with a head injury.

#Her hands and feet were bound, police said.

#A 44-year-old man believed to be her boyfriend is currently in police custody, assisting them with the matter.

#Authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the murder may have happened during a robbery attempt or an incident of domestic violence, Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander said yesterday.

#Ms Carroll, who was reportedly 53, lived alone and had one child, a daughter attending college in the United States.

#Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner said the murder unsettled the normally serene community.  

#“Everybody is in shock,” she said when contacted yesterday. “You think about the idyllic lifestyle of the islands and to have something as horrific as this enter into a peaceful community is unnerving and unsettling. It’s unbelievable. Crime is everywhere. As one who is among those who sit in positions to pass laws to help to protect the people, I feel very helpless and really distraught to know that crime is all around us.

#“(Ms Carroll) is a person I knew (for about) a decade,” Mrs Butler Turner said. “We go way back. After seeing her in Long Island, conducting her business and really not bothering with anyone that I am aware, having something like this happen makes you wonder what is going on. I spoke with her brother who was just at my house last Sunday. He was torn up, totally torn up and everybody in that area is in the same way.”

#Mrs Butler-Turner explained that Ms Carroll had returned to Long Island from New Providence several years ago to take care of her “aging parents.”

#“After both parents died she remained there, operating the business,” she said.

#“I’ve spoken with people in the central area of the island, in the deep south, and everybody is in shock and just wondering who could’ve done something like this. I just hope the police are able to resolve this. It won’t bring her back but I would hate to think this becomes an occurrence where we become desensitized to murder.”

#Long Island residents yesterday described her as mild tempered, out-spoken and educated, explaining that she was a respected voice in the community.

#Kenneth Cartwright, owner of Seaside Village, a restaurant and bar on the island, said he was a lifelong friend of Ms Carroll.

#He noted that on the day of her death, roads leading to her home became blocked as neighbours, family and friends flocked to mourn and try to find answers.

#Another Long Island resident, who did not want to be named, said the community is stunned by the killing.

#“I knew her well,” said the resident. “I grew up almost next door to her.”

#People on the island suspect Ms Carroll may have been killed during a robbery attempt.

#“It’s a total shock and people are quite afraid,” the resident said.

#Adding a layer of mystery to the killing was the fact that “hundreds of people” arrived on the island for an event there over the weekend, the resident said.

#“We had a function out here where there were some outsiders during that same weekend so it might have been somebody from outside that did this. I just don’t know of any people on this island that would do something like this.”  

#Island residents, she said, are already taking precautions following the murder by locking their doors and closing their windows, measures they haven’t always found necessary.

#The last killing on the island took place several years ago.

#Ms Carroll’s death followed the murders of two men who were shot dead in Yellow Elder in New Providence on Friday just minutes apart.

#Ms Carroll’s death brought the murder count to 109 for the year.

#Police recorded 119 murders in 2013 and 111 in 2012.