BY DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
TWO men were shot at a business establishment on Thursday evening in Freeport after the owner allegedly discovered them on his premises.
According to reports, the incident happened shortly after 10pm at a business on East Beach Drive.
Inspector Terecita Pinder reported that the business owner, along with his son, observed three men on the property. The man told police that two of the men approached him and as a result he discharged his licensed shotgun, injuring both males.
The men were transported by EMS personnel to the Rand Memorial Hospital.
Ms Pinder said the businessman and his son are assisting police with their investigation into the matter.
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 3 months ago
Sadly there are well-known Bahamians taking advantage of this fear of crime situation to unjustly enrich their friends and family members seeking to derive great profits from providing neighbourhood security services in areas where they themselves own property or are involved in property development activities. More often than not, opening up or exposing a neighbourhood to such security services results in the opposite effect desired because the security providers themselves (or their family members or close friends), armed with additional information gathered about the neighbourhood's residents, begin to prey on the very people they are supposed to be protecting in an effort to justify their existence and/or make "good easy money" on the side by burglaries and home invasions that would not have otherwise been experienced by the neighbourhood's residents, especially those residents who refuse to ante up the coercive monthly payments demanded of the security service providers. Most Bahamians would be wise to educate themselves on what happened to residents of Blair Estates and many other similar neighbourhoods whose fears were preyed upon by very opportunistic security service providers! There really is no substitute today for having a licensed firearm.
Reality_Check 7 years, 3 months ago
Not just an experience of Blair Estates in days gone by, but also Camperdown, Sans Souci, Winton, Port New Providence, Sandy Port, etc. etc. etc., and even Lyford Cay! Neighbourhoods hiring private security service providers cannot even rely on police certificates produced for each of the security personnel involved because even these certificates are often subject to being fraudulently obtained for the right price!
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