By NICO SCAVELLA
Tribune Staff Reporter
nscavella@tribunemedia.net
A SUSPECT is in police custody and assisting officers with their investigation into a stabbing incident over the weekend that has left a man dead.
According to police, shortly after 2pm on Sunday, a man was involved in an argument with another man on Munson Village Road that led to him being stabbed.
The victim was rushed to hospital in serious condition where he later died from his injuries. Police later took a man into custody in connection with the incident.
The killing is the 84th murder for the year, according to The Tribune’s records, which also show that as of August 11, 2016 there was 65 murders.
This represents about a 29 per cent increase.
About a week ago, two men were killed in the capital, one of whom was murdered less than a month after he was released on bail. Police have not released the identities of the deceased men; however The Tribune understands they are 21-year-old Terrence Rolle and 30-year-old Keno Hepburn.
Rolle was charged with the murder of Troy “Ghost” Clarke and was released on bail on July 17.
He was sitting in a parked car on Lily of the Valley Corner, off East Street when he and another passenger were fired on by two men in a charcoal gray coloured Honda sometime around 2.45pm on Saturday, August 5.
The gunmen reportedly drove up to the parked car and opened fire on the occupants of the vehicle.
Rolle received multiple gunshots to his torso, according to police, and died at the scene. The other victim was taken to hospital by Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
The second fatal shooting occurred outside a Cowpen Road nightclub shortly after 1.30am on Emancipation Day.
According to police, Hepburn was involved in an argument with several other men before he was shot outside the club on August 7. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Anyone with information on these incidents is asked to call police at 919 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS.
Comments
tell_it_like_it_is 6 years, 8 months ago
Listen up young Bahamian men... the People's Time does NOT mean the People's time for Murder. Wake up Bahamas!
It's seems like Anger Management and the Value of a Human Life needs to be a part of the curriculum in school... sheesh!
John 6 years, 8 months ago
The country is still on the road to record 135 murders in 2017. And, unfortunately, if nothing changes, more killings will occur under the new administration than under the previous government. Thus far no effort has been made to reach to young males, to educate them about the dangers against their lives, when they make wrong decisions and even to get feed back as to what they perceive to be the causes of so many murders each year for the past 12-13 years. There only seems to be police interaction with these young men and by that time it's because there is another dead body discovered.
Sickened 6 years, 8 months ago
So this is why the unemployment rate is so low. All those young men looking for jobs are being killed. This is not the best solution!
Well_mudda_take_sic 6 years, 8 months ago
Bye-bye tourism jobs. Bye-bye foreign direct investment jobs. Bye-bye quality (and possibly length) of life for most decent Bahamians and their families.
baldbeardedbahamian 6 years, 8 months ago
Stop unwanted babies being born. Give women the right to control their reproduction. This will mean less murderous thugs in the future.
SP 6 years, 8 months ago
Get off your high horse
baldbeardedbahamian 6 years, 8 months ago
you from a single parent home, eh?
John 6 years, 8 months ago
400 persons have died from opioids overdose or poisoning if Florida this year. This is a new epidemic in the US. Started in the Midwest and has now made its way to Florida. Imagine if it hits the Bahamas.
John 6 years, 8 months ago
Opioids is described as heroine in pill form and while President Trump is seeking to blame the addicts, many believe it is the fault of politicians who colluded with pharmaceutical companies and approved drug after drug after drug. Now many of the drugs are being manufactured in some street dealers garage and since the actual content of the pills are unknown, even a single pill can lead to death. Bahamians are not killers by nature and that is why it is so patently important to find who is really driving the murders of mostly young men in this country. This can only be done when the detection rate is improved and persons accused of murder get a fair and speedy trial. Too many persons accused of murder in this country claim their innocence but are murdered before they get their day in court. Is this a way of protecting the real killers in this country and allowing them to continue with their dastardly deeds?
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