By NICO SCAVELLA
Tribune Staff Reporter
nscavella@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was shot and killed while at his workplace yesterday afternoon, according to police.
Chief Superintendent Paul Rolle, officer in charge of the Central Detective Unit, said the deceased, who worked at a battery recycling shop on Augusta Street, was shot and killed by a lone gunman while doing his “packaging” shortly before 3pm.
Mr Rolle said the deceased was accompanied by the shop’s owner before the shooting.
However, he would not say whether or not the owner was present at the time of the victim’s death.
“Shortly before 3pm police received reports of gunshots being discharged in this Augusta Street north community,” Mr Rolle said.
“Officers responded to the scene where they met a male lying in a yard suffering from multiple gunshots to his body. Our preliminary investigations at this time suggest that the male who was an employee of the establishment here that smelters these batteries for recycling, he was there doing his packaging when a lone male entered the yard dressed in a grey hoodie accosted this male and began discharging shots in his direction hitting him to the upper body.
“Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene and pronounced this male lifeless. We appeal to persons who may have information with regards to this latest homicide to reach out to us and help us to advance this investigation.”
When asked for a description of the victim, Mr Rolle said: “He’s an adult male with locks. I’ll have to get the age. I’m just waiting for some information to come to me.”
When questioned if the victim was alone at the time of the shooting, Mr Rolle said: “No, he was (here) along with the owner.”
He would not say anything further on the matter, but believed he was a resident of Gibbs Corner.
Police had not identified a suspect in the matter up to press time.
Yesterday’s murder comes a day after the body of a young woman was found badly burned with a “black cord” tied around her neck at her Carmichael Road home early Monday morning.
Mr Rolle said police would await an autopsy to determine the cause of her death, however, it is believed that the fire was “intentionally started.”
Additionally, police have launched an island-wide manhunt for suspects involved in two separate weekend shootings.
The first incident took place shortly before 1am Saturday. According to police reports, a woman was at a bar on East Bay Street when an argument started among patrons, resulting in a white man firing a handgun. The woman was shot in her upper chest. She was rushed to hospital, where she remains in critical condition. The suspect left the scene in a gold or champagne coloured Mercedes Benz.
In the other incident, shortly after 9pm on Saturday, police responded to a report of a man being shot at New Hope Drive. When officers arrived on the scene they found the man suffering a gunshot wound in his left leg. The man, who was taken to hospital, is currently in stable condition.
Investigations into all of these matters are continuing.
Comments
John 9 years, 1 month ago
If you heard Obie Wilchcombe's outbursts on crime today he sounded like an alien from an outer space planet called 'Retard." All these years Bahamians have been losing loved ones and personal property and being otherwise violated and debased by crime and been hollering and screaming and begging the government to do something about crime he just poke his head in the window and the best he could say is " Bahamians ain't vex enough about crime." And even if Bahamiana ain't vex almost 1000 persons have lost their lives to murder over since the PLP was in government the last time. Getting angry again cannot fix crimes
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