A MAN has been shot dead at a party in the early hours of Boxing Day after an argument.
Police report that shortly after 12.30am, the man was attending a party at a home at Killdeer Drive, Monastery Park, when he got into an argument with another man that led to him being shot.
The man was pronounced dead on the scene. He is the 144th person to be murdered in The Bahamas in 2015.
It was the second shooting incident that police are investigating. Around 11pm on Christmas Day a man was standing outside his home at Reeves Street, Fox Hill, when the occupants of a black Honda car pulled up and shot him before speeding off.
The man was rushed to hospital, where he remains in stable condition.
Police have taken two men into custody over Christmas for illegal firearms possession.
Shortly after 10.30pm on Friday, officers from the Selective Enforcement Team were conducting an operation on Dennis Court, Yellow Elder Gardens, when three men in the area aroused their suspicion. One, on seeing the officers, fled on foot.
After a short chase, the officers caught him, conducted a search and found a handgun in his possession. The suspect was subsequently taken into custody.
In a second incident, shortly after 2am on Boxing Day, Mobile Division officers were on routine patrol on East Street South, when they searched a man outside a nightclub and found a handgun with two rounds of ammunition in his possession.
The suspect was also taken into custody.
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John 8 years, 3 months ago
A former senior official in China who was in charge of an agency responsible for regulating a waste heap that collapsed last week with the loss of more than 70 people has committed suicide, police said on Monday.
The government has not blamed anyone for the disaster in the southern city of Shenzhen on Dec. 20, when the dump overflowed and engulfed 33 buildings in an industrial park, but on Saturday it blamed breaches of construction safety rules.
Two people have been confirmed dead while more than 70 are missing.
The former director of the Guangming New District Urban Management Bureau, a man surnamed Xu, had committed suicide, district police said in a microblog post, adding that police had received a report that a person had fallen from a building late on Sunday.
Police made no link between Xu's death and the disaster. The government had warned earlier that those held responsible would be "seriously punished in accordance with the law".
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