The Tribune

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

A MAN fatally stabbed in Grand Bahama yesterday begged for his life moments before he was killed, according to neighbours in the Drake Avenue area of Freeport.

Barry Thompson Jr, 46, pleaded with his attacker not to kill him, The Tribune was told.

A 45-year-old man, also of Drake Avenue, is in custody assisting police with their investigations into the 11th homicide on the island in 2016.

According to police

reports, shortly after 3am, officers were called to an apartment complex on Drake Avenue where a man was found lying on the ground with multiple stab wounds to the body.

The Tribune understands his throat had also been cut.

EMS personnel responded, but the victim had died of his injuries at the scene.

When The Tribune arrived, neighbours were outside discussing the incident. They said that Mr Thompson lived alone in a unit at the apartment complex.

“The neighbours heard a man saying, ‘please, don’t kill me’,” one man said. Another said that Mr Thompson had a twin brother.

Officers arrested a man a short time later in connection with the incident.

Before yesterday Grand Bahama had had 10 murders this year.

On January 5, 23-year-old Eleazor Louis was shot outside a residence on Bass Lane and Murchison Drive.

On February 21, 35-year-old Johnson ‘Johnny Quest’ Laguerre was gunned down on Weddell Avenue.

A month later, police were called to a double homicide in the Bruce Avenue area. Jacqueline Armbrister, 55, and Noel Hamilton, 57, were the victims.

A week after that, 20-year-old Tremecco ‘Bam Bam’ Johnson was shot to death at the Fish Fry in Smith’s Point. Later that day, Customs Officer Kevin Hanna, 49, was shot at his home in South Bahamia.

On April 3,  a 23-year-old resident of Hanna Hill, Eight Mile Rock, Sanchez Ferguson Bethel, was shot dead in his vehicle near Rigby Plaza. And on May 3 Pedro Anthony McKenzie, 43, was murdered at Man-o-War Circle, off East Indianman Road.

On May 28, Dexter Bellamy, 21, was shot and killed while on June 23 Corey Thompson, a disabled man, was also found shot dead in a shack in the Pioneer’s Loop Subdivision.

There have been 63 murders recorded in the Bahamas in 2016 according to The Tribune’s records.