The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

ONE MAN is dead and two other men are fighting for their lives in hospital after they were shot in two separate incidents early Saturday morning.

The latest incident took place shortly after 2am on Minnie Street.

Police said they received information that several shots were fired in the Wulff Road area. When officers arrived on the scene, they found two men lying on the ground suffering from multiple gunshots wounds. One man died on the scene a short while later and the other victim was taken to hospital by ambulance where he is listed in critical condition.

This latest homicide takes the country’s murder count to 98 for the year, according to The Tribune’s records.

Two hours earlier, shortly after midnight on Saturday, a man was leaving a nightclub on Faith Avenue south when he was shot by an unknown person, police said.

He was taken to hospital where he is listed in serious, but stable condition.

No one has been taken into custody in connection with either of these incidents. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.

Investigations are continuing.

In other crime news, police arrested two men on Friday after a short high-speed chase on Carmichael road.

According to reports, shortly after 11pm, officers from the Southwestern Division were on mobile patrol on Carmichael Road near McKinney Drive, when they observed a black Honda Accord with two male occupants driving in a suspicious manner.

The officers ordered the men to stop the vehicle, but they refused and sped off.

A chase followed. The vehicle came to a stop when it collided with another car.

The two male occupants ran from the vehicle and threw a plastic bag to the ground, police said.

The officers retrieved the bag containing a quantity of marijuana and took the two males, ages 27 and 20, into custody.

Investigations continue.