BY riel mAJOR
POLICE are investigating the first recorded murder of the year which claimed the life of 19-year-old Terrance Rolle Jr.
According to police, shortly after 11am on January 1, a man was walking with other persons on Market Street in the vicinity of C R Walker Senior High School, when he was approached by a another man armed with a firearm, who shot him before running away.
Paramedics were called to the scene and took the injured man to hospital, where he died from his injuries.
When asked if the murder was gang-related, Chief Superintendent Solomon Cash said: “We have to protect the integrity of investigations. We don’t really want to put a bad image on any victim because you know they have families who love them.
“He is known to us in the extent that we conducted investigations and his name came up.”
CSP Cash said two persons of interest are in custody in connection with this incident.
The killing came after the country wrapped up 2018 with its lowest murder count since 2010. Ninety-one killings were recorded last year, according to this newspaper’s records. Not since 2010, when 94 people were murdered, have fewer than 100 murders been recorded in a single year.
Eighty-seven people were murdered in 2009. Authorities are now aiming to keep the murder tally below 90 in 2019, National Security Minister Marvin Dames has said. Police recorded 127 murders in 2011; 111 murders in 2012; 119 murders in 2013; 123 murders in 2014; 146 in 2015; 111 in 2016 and 122 in 2017.
Anyone with any additional information on Tuesday’s incident, or any other crime, is asked to call police at 502-9991/2 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS.
Comments
tell_it_like_it_is 5 years, 3 months ago
New year...same garbage... I feel safer already.
TalRussell 5 years, 3 months ago
Yes, no in name Joseph, the father Jesus, all we can do is call upon some self-appointed apostles, doctors of religion, Profithets and Profithetess to give up some their money making time to take street corners rescue some our wayward comrades. Yes, no equally competition amongst we locals and imported.
pileit 5 years, 3 months ago
Tal....PLEASE man, this is unintelligible, it is not dialect, not patois, just sputtering jibberish! Some of us would like to actually understand what you're trying to say!
TalRussell 5 years, 3 months ago
Yes, no ma comrade it may be an old-fashioned ways talking straight but there are blog readers who really wants hear the uncensored about what is really happening to our colony of islands ways life. Tis getting harder distinguish God's anointed man's and woman's from the self-anointed money changers "goddamn" man's and woman's. Yes, no?
1Life2Live 5 years, 3 months ago
Instead of importing Haitians, invest in Cubans. You have tooo many 'hi-shen' voodoo...wicked. They have spoiled the country; disgusting. That country use to be amazing in the 60's and the beginning of the 70's...before 1973. You should NEVER, NOT ever have gone independent!
Why won't you RETURN to the CROWN? Why NOT!? Tooo much of your corrupt government would be revealed?
You don't have any jobs for your citizens ... riddled with crime ... corruption haven. RETURN to the CROWN; save yourselves!
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