Police found the body in this car.
By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
A TEENAGE girl was found shot to death early yesterday morning – the third person to be killed within 36 hours in the capital.
Assistant Superintendent of Police, Anthony Ferguson, said police received an anonymous call that around 7am a car was parked on a dirt road with what appeared to be a dead girl inside.
“Officers responded and went to the bonefish pond area off Cowpen Road, about a quarter mile through Farm Road, and saw a Honda Accord parked on the dirt road. Upon further investigation officers discovered a female in the passenger seat with gun shot injuries about her body,” he said.
“From all indications she was there for several hours, we believe during the course of the night. It is still early in the investigation, but all we can say right now is she appears to be in her late teens, maybe early 20’s, and the car she was found in was not registered to her.”
Police have not officially identified the victim but The Tribune understands she is 19-year-old Latheria “Lulu” Moss.
About three hours earlier, police were on the scene of another homicide, this time in the Red Land Acres area. According to reports, shortly after 3am police received a report that a man was found dead on Haven and Sea Roads.
When they arrived they found a man lying in the driveway of a residence. He had two gunshot wounds in his head. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS personnel.
ACP Ferguson said police are still trying to identify the victim and they have no motive or suspects at this time although last night they said the two murders are related.
He said police also have no suspects in the shooting death of a man late on Friday night around 11pm off Washington Street.
Police say the victim was at Kings Barr on Robinson Road when a man armed with a handgun walked in and shot him several times. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition where he died of his injuries a short time later.
ACP Ferguson said police are unsure if the three homicides are related but their investigations continue.
Anyone with information on any of the murders are asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.
Comments
John 9 years, 11 months ago
Everyone must come to realize that there is no easy, quick fix solution to the problem of murder in this country. The police are working, the government is looking at new strategies but the vexing problem of murder remains stubborn. If we search the scriptures we know that after Cain killed his brother, he showed no remorse. He was more concerned about his punishment rather than the fact that he had killed his brother. Jesus further tells that those who commit murder are doing the works of their father, the devil. Cain also allowed the spirit of satan to consune him. He was angry with God, jealous of his brother. He became enraged and killed him. WE know that there are many angry young men in this country. Christ says thst in order to stop them from committing murder, you must change their mindset
John 9 years, 11 months ago
"The source of murder comes from the heart (mind, the core of an individual's character) where hate and anger are festered by Satan. If we have these evil traits in our hearts, we are fostering the spirit of murder. Thought precedes action and hatred precedes murder. If we hate someone, we break the sixth commandment.
PastorTroy 9 years, 11 months ago
Respectfully, IMHO, Satan?? hate and anger from an imaginary being? Lets get real, hate and anger can be a mental defect, but this is a social issue, disenfranchisement, The heavily bias WAR ON DRUGS and destroyed many minority communities, now we learn that the DEA IN THE BAHAMAS have 'allowed' the NSA to spy on EVERY CELL PHONE CALL IN THE ENTIRE NATION!!! Lets be honest with ourselves, is the 'War on drugs' REALLY, worth all this destruction and lost of freedom?? Lack of education and opportunity etc, etc. Many of these 'murderers' are just 'hitmen' for the real murderers, disturbingly, many of the law firms that represent these murders are affiliated in some way with our Politicians!! it's BOTH their way of making a living! Am not condoning their actions, but we have to get real, THIS is the frustration in the Bahamas, that we can blame everything on or the 'solution' to fix any and every social ills created my man can be fixed by an imaginary 'person' many, even those who profit from it don't deeply beleive in or understand. Many of our 'religious leaders' are just Literalist and lack historical facts. Am not anti-religion, however I am a realist. We are now living in the residual of our past deeds and actions! The chickens have come home to roost! Hypocrisy, Cronyism and having our heads in the sand about who and what is really causing social ills in our Bahamaland are some of the problems. We've had religious indoctrination for the past 40 years, church on every corner, God written in the constitution, but lets be honest here, those laws are for the commoners, those laws does not apply to the elites, the 'movers and shakers' and their crony's. Now the commoners has now 'wise up' to the ALL FOR ME GREED. We need a change from the top down!! WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!!
John 9 years, 11 months ago
Are you saying 'the devil is a lie?"
Bahamianpride 9 years, 11 months ago
The devil is a lie and the Bible is a book of fiction, full of mystercism and symbolism. Religion is the opiate of the Brain washed masses, medicine to deal with the stresses of everyday life with the promise that your suffering will be rewarded in the afterlife. Which gives people a way out of dealing with reality and solving real problems " It's in God's Hands" a quote i've heard since birth. The book itself is a contradiction to many as it states" Faith Without Works is Useless" so pray everyday but if u full of Sh-t aint nothing happening for u. Religious Indoctrination is one of our handicaps not a solution to real problems like crime. If one thinks so, then God must really hate our asses..
A story yesterday on Yahoo was about a Suddanese man, (christian) who lives in New Hamshire returning to that country to save his wife ( muslim by definiition because of her father) who is pregnant and about to be put to death for marying a christian man. This is what religion breeds. People can keep there primative religion and everyday u wake up your problems with still be there unless u get up of your ass and take action.
242orgetslu 9 years, 11 months ago
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Across the inky-blue Gulf Stream from Florida, near the sheer edge of the Great Bahama Bank, a new island is emerging from the sea. Although it bears the appealing name Ocean Cay, this new island is not, and never will be, a palm-fringed paradise of the sort the Bahamian government promotes in travel ads. No brace of love doves would ever choose Ocean Cay for a honeymoon; no beauty in a brief bikini would waste her sweetness on such desert air. Of all the 3,000 islands and islets and cays in the Bahamas, Ocean Cay is the least lovely. It is a flat, roughly rectangular island which, when completed, will be 200 acres and will resemble a barren swatch of the Sahara. Ocean Cay does not need allure. It is being dredged up from the seabed by the Dillingham Corporation of Hawaii for an explicit purpose that will surely repel more tourists than it will attract. In simplest terms, Ocean Cay is a big sandpile on which the Dillingham Corporation will pile more sand that it will subsequently sell on the U.S. mainland. The sand that Dillingham is dredging is a specific form of calcium carbonate called aragonite, which is used primarily in the manufacture of cement and as a soil neutralizer. For the past 5,000 years or so, with the flood of the tide, waters from the deep have moved over the Bahamian shallows, usually warming them in the process so that some of the calcium carbonate in solution precipitated out. As a consequence, today along edges of the Great Bahama Bank there are broad drifts, long bars and curving barchans of pure aragonite. Limestone, the prime source of calcium carbonate, must be quarried, crushed and recrushed, and in some instances refined before it can be utilized. By contrast, the aragonite of the Bahamian shallows is loose and shifty stuff, easily sucked up by a hydraulic dredge from a depth of one or two fathoms. The largest granules in the Bahamian drifts are little more than a millimeter in diameter. Because of its fineness and purity, the Bahamian aragonite can be used, agriculturally or industrially, without much fuss and bother. It is a unique endowment. There are similar aragonite drifts scattered here and there in the warm shallows of the world, but nowhere as abundantly as in the Bahamas. In exchange for royalties, the Dillingham Corporation has exclusive rights in four Bahamian areas totaling 8,235 square miles. In these areas there are about four billion cubic yards—roughly 7.5 billion long tons—of aragonite. At rock-bottom price the whole deposit is worth more than $15 billion. An experienced dredging company like Dillingham should be able to suck up 10 million tons a year, which will net the Bahamian government an annual royalty of about $600,000.
John 9 years, 11 months ago
WHEN You buy a washing machine or a cell phone or a car, it comes with a users manual that tells you how to operate, use and service the equipment. The bible is the users manual for humans and it tells us that you should not deal with murder like the state (government does): wait until someone gets killed and then investigate. But when a person holds hatred and anger and jealousy in his heart against his brother he has already committed murder in his heart. We know many of their young people are angry. .
""Angry without a cause" indicates someone vainly or uselessly incensed. It describes a person so proud, sensitive, or insecure that he gets angry about trifling things. He wears his feelings on his sleeve and is easily offended. He then broods on the offense and nurses it into a grudge
Where does most of the anger in our young men come from? We know for a fact that near 80 percent of our young men are raised in single family homes. We also know many of these young men sped 18 years hearing their mothers refer to their 'no good pa', and sometimes,'you ger be jus like him.' And 'All you men are just alike and no good"
But not only are the men being brought up full of anger but they also display female traits they adopt from the mothers who raise them. Normal men do not hold grudges forever and seek revenge over trival matters. But women do. And since most young males grow up with just their mothers they are taught to seek spite and revenge. And while most women will not seek to kill in revenge (but it does happen in moments of rage), men who are full of anger will kill whoever they feel has offended them, competed with them (for turft or in a relationship) or wronged them in some other way . ".In the old days men condemned murder; and truly murder is forever wrong. But I tell you that not only are a man's outward actions under judgment; his inmost thoughts are also under the scrutiny and the judgment of God. Long-lasting anger is bad; contemptuous speaking is worse, and the careless or malicious talk which destroys a man's good name is worst of all." The man who is the slave of anger, the man who speaks in the accent of contempt, the man who destroys another's good name, may never have committed a murder in action, but he is a murderer at heart".
So what we have in the Bahamas are a lot of angry young men, acting with the emotions of a woman. Rather than let things go 'forgive and forget", they hold on to anger and then seek revenge. When this happens, murder happens.
""Brooding anger, contempt, and character assassination are all the spirit of murder. Christ here traces murder to several of its major sources. To continue in any of these states breaks the sixth commandment. Death is the penalty. Christians have to keep the spirit of the law
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