The Tribune

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was shot to death in the Freeport area on Thursday evening, pushing the murder count on Grand Bahama to 13 for the year so far.

The shooting occurred at an apartment complex on Hudson Avenue around 9pm and a video of the victim lying on the ground in a pool of blood went viral on social media.

People were heard crying and shouting for onlookers to call 911. The victim, who The Tribune understands is Antonio “Toe” Miller, died at the scene.

Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Emrick Seymour told reporters at the scene that police were alerted to gunshots being fired in the area and dispatched a team officers to investigate.

On arrival in the area, he said, officers discovered the body of a male lying on the ground with what appeared to be multiple gunshots about the body. ACP Seymour said initial investigations revealed that the victim was leaving an apartment in the Hudson Avenue area when he was accosted by a masked armed man, who shot him several times about the body.

EMS personnel pronounced the victim dead at the scene, he said.

Police do not know the motive for the shooting. “We have launched an intensive investigation to determine what happened here and who is responsible for this. We are asking members of public who have any information that can assist us to step forward,” ACP Seymour said.

The incident occurred a week after the double murder of Barry and Sheena Johnson at Holmes Rock, Grand Bahama. Four men have been charged in the matter.

Businessman Lester Adderley Jr was also shot to death outside an apartment complex in the Xanadu Beach area. Adderley’s body was discovered in the parking lot of the Blue Marina Cove Apartments around 10pm on August 22. He had been shot multiple times in the body.

According to The Tribune’s records 111 people have been murdered in the Bahamas so far in 2015.