A man was found shot dead in a car near East Sunrise Plaza on Thursday night. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn/BIS
By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
GRAND Bahama Police are actively investigating the murder of a young barber known as 'Ace’ who was gunned down in Freeport late on Thursday night.
On Friday, a bow was placed on the door of the Kutting Stylez Barber Shop in the Gwen’s Shopping Plaza on East Atlantic Drive, where the victim had worked for the past four years. The shop was closed, but people working in the plaza and those who were hanging out in the area were saddened by the news.
“He was inside here yesterday, and I am shocked,” said a young female cashier employed in an eaterie in the Plaza.
A young man hanging outside the plaza said he knew the barber only as “Ace”. “We sad to hear the news. The owner of the barber shop is also upset about it, and he closed the store and left,” he said.
A store owner who knew 'Ace' said he was always in her store, and said he was a very nice guy.
This latest incident is the island’s fifth homicide of the year and the 57th in the Bahamas in 2017, according to The Tribune's records. According to reports, around 11pm police were called to an area at the rear of East Sunrise Plaza, where the body of a male was discovered in a vehicle with gunshot wounds to the head. The victim had died at the scene.
Grand Bahama recorded its first murders on February 1 when two men - Stephon LaFrance, 25, and Joseph Bain, 27 - were gunned outside the Game Time Bar on Logwood Road shortly after 1am following an altercation with a group of men.
The third homicide occurred on Valentine's Day when 49-year-old Margaret Smith was fatally stabbed at Eight Mile Rock. The incident occurred shortly after 5pm at Seagrape.
On April 1, police officer Theresa Thompson was fatally shot at a nightclub on Oat Street, Freeport. The incident occurred around 9pm. There has been no arrest in Thompson’s death.
Anyone with information that can assist the police with these matters is asked to call Central Detective Unit at 350-3107-12, 919, 911, or the nearest police station.
Grand Bahama Police are also investigating a stabbing incident that has left a man in hospital with serious injuries on Thursday evening.
According to police, shortly after 10pm, a victim was reportedly involved in an altercation with another man in the Fawcett Lane area when he was stabbed in his body. He was transported by private vehicle to the Rand Memorial Hospital, where he is listed in serious condition.
A 20-year-old male resident of Oates Lane is in custody assisting police with their investigations.
Comments
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
I am beginning to think that we have a couple of generations of people that are unfixable, and the social ills cannot be solved until we replace them or outnumber them. Outlook is bleak.
baldbeardedbahamian 6 years, 11 months ago
THERE IS NO CURE FOR SOCIOPATHY. PERHAPS STRILIZATION TO STOP THE GENE PATTERN REPRODUCING? UP TO 5% OF ANY POPULATION IS SOCIOPATHIC. THEY LOOK JUST LIKE THE REST OFUS AND PROBABLY DONT EVEN KNOW THAT THEY ARE SOCIOPATHS, ONLY BELIEVING THEY ARE "HARD" AND NOT TO BE MESSED WITH. DO THE MATHS, WE HAVE WELLOVER ONE THOUSAND SOCIOPATHIC MALES IN OUR MIDST. I HAVE READ THAT THEY DO VERY WELL IN THE NILITARY PARTICULARLY IN WARTIME. IN TIMES OF PEACE THEY CAN DO WELL IN POLITICS BECAUSE OF THE ABILITY TO LIE SO CONVINCINGLY.
Jonahbay 6 years, 11 months ago
We have lost 2 generations to gangs and drugs because of the violence that accompanies those two things. What we are reaping now was sown long ago. When we were a nation for sale and turned a blind eye to drug running and glorified the people who showed off their ill-gotten gains. The only hope now is for the children. If we can intervene and give them a strong educational foundation while teaching them people skills and manners, and at the same time grow industries so that there will be work for them to do in the future. A hard task when 50% of the jobs of the future have not even been invented yet. It's a long bumpy road ahead...
John 6 years, 11 months ago
If the first part of Miles Monroe has come to pass, then the second part must also be true and come to past. Miles Munro said there will be sweeping changes in government : "old faces will be removed off the scene and they will be replaced by young people whose thinking and whose ideas will blow your mind. Elections 2017 proved Pastor Munro correct. But the pastor also said there will be many people dying, many people taking ill and many persons dying. This country has lost close to TWO THOUSAND People to murder in the past decade. Many more young have died to illness and tradegy. Many people are going out of their minds. The son of perdition is about to be revealed. Satan , himself, that wicked one. But there must be a falling away first. The word of the Lord will come to pass. God's word never changes.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
“I speak prophetically that we are now about to enter, within the next few days, a period of what I call the last moment. From July 2014 to July 2015, there shall be tremendous change in one year. “You watch. There shall be many people dying. I’m telling you, many will be sick. Many will be removed in ways we can’t explain why because God [has] got to make sure the place is clear.
I'm always skeptical when men declare themselves prophets. Especially when their prophecies predict the predictable. It was very predictable that we would need new leaders and old leaders would be challenged. It was predictable that many people would die, our crime problem was growing with no cure in sight. I watched the sermon when Dr Munroe gave this "prophecy" and those people in the church looked half asleep, no one was riveted, no one looked like, "wow what kind of prophecy is this today, this is true revelation". I believe we've attempted to retrofit what Dr Munroe said to actual events. Also his prophecy was for 2015, not 2017.
A friend told me about their visit to a local church where another pastor gave a prophecy, it was Good Friday service so church was packed, and of course mostly women. The pastor's prophecy was "someone in this church is pregnant".
The de rigueur prophecy is "money is coming". So many Bahamians with soft minds, so little time to grab their money. What we have in the pulpit today are a lot of charismatic people who bank on their speaking ability and charisma. They preach a gospel people WANT to hear. And then they ask you to donate to the cause so the prophecy can hit your life. Glorified marketers. Someone described it to me as the "webshop model", let a few people "win" and watch as everyone else gets "hooked" on the idea that it could be them too, but they have to pay.
I had a conversation with someone who believed a money was coming prophecy in this case given for a specific date in Fall of 2016. I said, but money didn't come, they told me I didn't understand prophecies, the prophecy did come true, money was there it just hadn't manifested as yet....
I pray for our country that our minds will be strengthened and we will not fall so easily for snake oil salesmen foreign or domestic,
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Oh, I forgot to mention that as 6th fattest nation in the world, diseases, illnesses and death are also predictable.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
English What Is Prophecy?
A prophecy is a message inspired by God, a divine revelation. The Bible says that prophets “spoke from God as they were moved by holy spirit.” (2 Peter 1:20, 21) So a prophet is one who receives God’s message and transmits it to others.—Acts 3:18. If you know anything about prophecy you will also know the t 'time stamp' is also prophetic. We did not have elections in neither 2014 or 2015.
John 6 years, 11 months ago
Those interested in the signs of the end times often take note of a warning given by Paul to the Thessalonians, speaking about the return of Jesus Christ to earth. He writes, “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). He then proceeds to explain this “falling away” in greater detail.
Paul writes that it will involve the revealing of “the man of sin…the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). Some man is going to style himself as greater than God, pretending to be God—and people will believe him. Why? Because:
“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-11).
The “man of sin” posing as God will be performing supernatural acts with the help of the devil, deceiving all those who have rejected God and putting himself in a position to be worshipped by the world.
Revelation 19:20 describes this powerful religious leader as “the false prophet who worked signs” in connection with the political leader called the “beast.” The False Prophet is the same as the one called “another beast” in Revelation 13:11, who performs miraculous “signs” (verses 14-15). He is also the leader of the false church (“the harlot”) in Revelation 17:1-5. He is also referred to as “another horn” who will “persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law” in Daniel 7:8, 20-22, 24-25.
There is much more to this subject of end-time prophecies. Learn more in the related resources below.
You Can Understand Bible Prophecy , The Book of Revelation Unveiled , and Are We Living in the Time of the End?
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
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ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Exactly. Lol
sheeprunner12 6 years, 11 months ago
Too many young black Bahamian men have modeled their patterns of social behaviour after that of the urban black(ghetto) culture of the United States ............. that is why we have a problem
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