The scene in Pride Estates where two suspects were shot by police and two firearms recovered following a high-speed chase. One of the suspects died later in hospital. Photo: Shawn Hanna/Tribune Staff
By SANCHESKA DORSETT
Tribune Staff Reporter
sdorsett@tribunemedia.net
POLICE shot and killed a car robbery suspect and critically injured another alleged thief during a high-speed chase in western New Providence yesterday afternoon.
The drama unfolded shortly after noon on Carmichael Road and ended after the suspects crashed their vehicle into a wall in Pride Estates.
Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean said officers arrested three men on the scene. Two of the suspects were taken to hospital where one man died a short time later. One of the men is listed in critical condition and the other suspect was unharmed during the shooting.
Senior ACP Dean said criminals should know “if you engage the police, be prepared for the consequences”. He said police suspect the men to be part of a car theft ring and can “assist police with a number of murder and robbery investigations.”
When The Tribune arrived at the scene there were more than 30 shell casings on the ground.
“What we have here is excellent example of text book police work, we told members of the public that the police will be out in full force to ensure their safety and peace and tranquility in our community. Despite some acts of violence I can tell you that police are out in full force in every area of New Providence,” Senior ACP Dean said.
“Today, officers from the Mobile Division were on patrol off Carmichael Road when they spotted a car with three suspicious men inside. The police suspected the car to be stolen. The officers beckoned to the vehicle’s driver to stop. Instead he took off at high speed. A chase ensued through several little communities of New Providence in the western area that ended here at Pride Estates, where the men crashed into a wall and left the vehicle and opened fire on the police. Officers returned fire and through the exchange of gunfire the police, who were well trained for instances such as this, were able to shoot two of the men, and arrested all three men. They are in custody and two handguns were recovered from the men.
“Two of the men were rushed to hospital where one died and one remains in critical condition.”
Senior ACP Dean said police want criminals to know that no matter when, where or how “we will find you and we will bring you to justice.”
“You will not destroy our country. We are telling you that the police will not stop. You cannot escape the arms of the law. You cannot escape the Royal Bahamas Police Force,” he said.
“We will be out there to find you, we will arrest you and take you into custody. This is just a warning to some criminal elements out there. We have a number of others we will be taking into custody and we are telling you do not challenge the police on the road, if you engage the police, be prepared for the consequences. Wherever the criminal might be we will find them and take them out.
“We are in the preliminary stage of our investigations and we can tell you, that we suspect them to be a part of a stolen car ring. We found several license plates in the vehicle and we also found that a plate that is on the vehicle does not belong to the vehicle. So we have a number of things we are going to be quizzing them on, we have had a number of armed robberies, we have had murders and we have a feeling these persons may be able to assist us with these investigations.”
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.
Comments
MassExodus 6 years, 11 months ago
Should have killed all three.
Kill the thugs and the world will be a better place.
Good job police.
DDK 6 years, 11 months ago
IT'S LIKE THE WILD WEST AND GETTING WILDER!
viewersmatters 6 years, 11 months ago
Excellent job, don't give these things no breathing space. A life was lost but always that one life could save many families and children from losing a love one.
Jetflt 6 years, 11 months ago
Great job by the Police. Now ya talkin'! That's more like it. Thugs - shoot every last one of them! You fire on police your ass will DIE!!!!
John 6 years, 11 months ago
Even if they was from the North Pole
John 6 years, 11 months ago
We are in the last days of earths history. They are about to build the temple where the abomination of desolation will take place and that will be it folks. The world as we know will roll up like a scroll.
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
The religionists have been saying that for 1000 years. You aren't by a chance a Millerite are you? (A Seventh Day Adventist). They are always saying the earth is going to end a year from now.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
And the only thing you can take out of this world is your soul. And that will depends on your faith alone. Choose this day whom you will serve. There will be no U haul trucks, no hackers, no rentals, no jet planes.. just you and God
Economist 6 years, 11 months ago
Very good job. Thank you.
Chucky 6 years, 11 months ago
Hey John, if you had to tell a surgeon to take out one's soul, exactly where on the human body would you tell him to look for it?
It never ceases to amaze me, how so many can be so deluded as to believe religious bull crap. And they do believe, despite the fact that all our religious leaders are clearly thiefin all the money; do you think a preacher man would steal the money on dah plate if he thought there was a god?
Of course not, but it pay well to lead the sheeple with religious hogwash.
justthefactsplease 6 years, 11 months ago
So because a doctor can't remove the soul it doesn't exist??? Have you ever seen pain? Does it exist? Don't be an idiot.
Why is John's belief an issue for you? I always find it interesting how people like you think it is ok to be critical of others' beliefs while expecting us to accept yours. We don't care what you believe and other people's beliefs should not be a concern of yours.
concernedcitizen 6 years, 11 months ago
Actually the world is experiencing one of the most peaceful periods in awhile , w/ less war worldwide and violent crime trending down in the major industrialized nations .I know it does not seem so b/c w/ 24 hour news coverage we now see everything ,also people who believe an apocalyptic war will bring their messiah , basically Islam ,Christianity,Judaesm ,,want to believe the end is near ..The facts don,t support their believe
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
Most rational people know that the Book of Revelations was a veiled attack against the Roman Emperor Nero. You know that right? The reason that it is veiled is because if it wasn't, you got a date with the lions in the Colosseum.
http://thetribune.media.clients.ellin...">All rational people, including newspaper editors who run cartoons, think that end times predictors are crazies. by banker
concernedcitizen 6 years, 11 months ago
Most of the bible was basically an oppressed peoples fight ,struggle against the Romans ,,it is hard to debate w/ people that believe they have the literal written word of god ..When I ask them how 150yd by 50yd by 80yd boat held 2 of every animal , they say a miracle ,,the Chinese wrote about a virgin birth 3000 yrs before the Jews ,,Buddha
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
I would have loved to have seen Noah sailing to Australia to catch the kangaroos. Then he would have to go to China and get a couple of Pandas, and enough eucalyptus to last 40 days and 40 nights. The Siberian Tigers would have been a challenge. And the unicorns that are mentioned in the Bible -- what happened to them. The dinosaurs would have been interesting as well.
ohdrap4 6 years, 11 months ago
the dinosaurs would have been long dead by then. If it were not for the people who insisted in voting for them, and still do.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
@Chucky if you had to tell BEC to take the electricity out the power line where exactly do they look for it? They go to the source from whence it came. The soul comes from the father and there is where it returns. You pay BEC for your electricity every month but do you ever see it? All you know is when the light and the tv don't come on the electricity is not on. And if you wake up one morning and find your own self dead then you know your soul is gone. To be absent from the body is to be present with the father.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
@ banker. If you studied history and geography you would know the earth was one single land mass before the flood.
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
The continents broke up 175 million years ago. The creationists say that the earth is no more than 4,000 years old. You can't have a foot in both camps. Either you believe in continental drift over millions of years, or you believe that the earth was made as it is.
It still doesn't explain the kangaroos, platypuses and unicorns, or how they fit in all 8.7 million animal species into a little ark?
by banker
John 6 years, 11 months ago
Did Adam and Eve have to catch a flight or catch a ship to name the animals? Ok then
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Why ask someone who doesn't believe inGod or the bible "well how did Adam and Eve get here", they believe Adam and Eve are like Wolverine and Professor Xavier. It's pointless to ask those questions or to use scripture to prove a point
stislez 6 years, 11 months ago
lmfao i thot dis was about crime, it so easy to getchyall lol!!!
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Just reading this morning, It was about crime until it wasn't
stislez 6 years, 11 months ago
easiest way to divide us..........bring up god, religion, den voice ya views or opinions.......lmfao.........why do yall always fall for it? sometimes agreeing to disagree may cause a different conversation........ine kno..... try it.....lol.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
The importance of this Advent sign was recognized by New Testament believers. Paul, for example, warns Timothy about the godlessness of the last days, saying: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God -- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them" (II Timothy 3:1-5, NIV).
concernedcitizen 6 years, 11 months ago
They also thought Jesus was coming back in their lifetime ,,there have been much more violent times than these,the dark ages , the crusades ,,good lord the old testament was Rome itself was an incestuous blood bath ,,
John 6 years, 11 months ago
Obviously they did not read the full bible. Christ says "behold I have told you everything." The bible says the end shall not come until all the prophecies are fulfilled. It also says the son of perdition Satan) must also be revealed. The great harlot that sits on seven hills will be identified, and Mystery Babylon (the empire that sits on many nations) will be destroyed (that country is no longer a mystery. The bible also identifies UFO's one thas been hovering the earth since the 1930's and may have caused a president his life because he wanted to make it public, "This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel." Do you know why the earth is tilted 26 degrees off its axis? The bible also why there are two sets of Jews, one set are vastly rich and controlling the majority of wealth of the worlds, and the others are dirt poor, been taken to a strange land in great ships and put into slavery, are in prisons around the world, are plagued with diseases, have children, but never get to see some of them grow to adults, marry women but have other men come sleep with them, are borrowers and not lenders, but continue to serve the Lord. And when the true choosen people of God are redeemed his promise to them; "I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars--I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you." Amen
John 6 years, 11 months ago
People who deny the existence of God fear their judgment
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Not really. Because they don't believe There'is a judgement. They believe when they die that's it. They may fear death, but that's natural. Arguing God and bible and scripture with someone who doesn't believe in God is like arguing politics with someone speaking German. Neither of you make any headway and you both waste time.
concernedcitizen 6 years, 11 months ago
Because someone does not believe the Bible , Koran , or Torah is the literally word of god does not automatically mean they do not have ethics or morals .They may even believe in a creator . The three monolithic religions have been slaughtering one another a 1000 years trying to prove who has the right god .I respect a Christian that lives an good moral life ,the rest of the scoundrels I know that live deporable lives but quote scripture at a drop of a hat I have very little time for .
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Yeah I agree with you, my "religious" conversation with people who don't believe in the bible stops at biblical "principles" because many of the principles have been adopted by society as "good standards", for example do unto others, or love your neighbors etc. My only point here is that arguing about how Adam and Eve got here and whether Jesus arose after three days is pointless. Jesus (for those who believe) didn't even do that.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
I don't think these exterminations put any dent in the problem. Every time I hear of one it reminds me of George Bush's post Iraq "war against terror". In the beginning the US news would spend days reporting on the successful removal of the new sinister "leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq". Two decades later there are so many "leaders" getting killed they barely get 2 secs of coverage. Says to me that the killings aren't the solution, the real solution is to stop making them.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
The same can be said for America's war of drugs. been going on for decades and while hundreds of thousands if not millions of persons have been or are in jail for small amounts of drugs, the problem still exist. The US was even experimenting with legalising marijuana and growing it, but that seem to lead to other major problems including increases in other crimes and other anti social behaviours. So Trump says there will be no more legal recreational marijuana. But there is still the abuse of cocaine, crystal metg, opioids and other prescription drugs. So unless you eliminate the problems removing one or two players every now and then in not effective. is their economic situation driving young men to crime and other anti-social behaviour? is the government taking the right approach by waiting until the police has to get involved? why is there such a great usage/abuse of drugs and alcohol in this country and what is being done about it? what is being about gangs in the Bahamas and what is being to stem their growth and,eventually eliminate them? What is an effective deterrent to murder and how does government propose to stem the dangerously increasing incidence of murder/ what effect does urban sprawl have on peoples behaviour and how can government minimise the negative effects of urban sprawl especially in New Providence and Grand Bahama and also preempt it in Abaco, Eleuthera and Exuma? What effect does a change in diet have on Bahamian people, especially as it relates to Bahamians living in New Providence and Grand Bahama> Especially as it relates to the change from eating a balanced well cooked meal to eating unbalanced, unhealthy, processed and preserved fast foods that many contain goo's and are known to cause health problems?
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