The Tribune

By SANCHESKA DORSETT

Tribune Staff Reporter

sdorsett@tribunemedia.net

A 55-year-old woman is dead after she was stabbed multiple times in her home off Mackey Street during a suspected domestic dispute early yesterday morning.

The killing took the country’s murder count to 63 for the year and marked the fourth murder in four days, according to The Tribune’s records.

According to a police report, shortly after 12.30am Wednesday police received information that a woman had been found by her neighbours stabbed to death at her home on Peter Street.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found the lifeless body of a woman with multiple stab wounds. The Tribune understands the victim was stabbed in the breast, the back and once in her left side.

She was pronounced dead on the scene. Police are actively searching for a man who was seen leaving her home before the discovery.

Police have identified the victim as Vadrise Bowleg of Peter Street.

The murder happened less than 48 hours after a man was shot multiple times and killed in front of his home off Okra Hill Road around 5pm Monday and another man died in hospital after a later shooting on Mackey Street and Wulff Road. The men have been identified by police as Livingston Mychal Rolle and Zachary Williams.

On Sunday, a man was found dead outside his home in Acklins hours after he had been treated and released from the local clinic for multiple stab wounds. The killing marked the island’s first homicide this year. He has been identified as 47-year-old David Alexander Hanna.

Last Tuesday, when asked about concerns over violent crime, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said “there is a sense of calmness” hovering over the country after his party’s crippling defeat of the Progressive Liberal Party.

However, he said, he is sure National Security Minister Marvin Dames will be aggressive in rolling out the party’s crime plan.

Despite several murders since the FNM’s election win, the prime minister offered no insight at the time as to how his administration intended to tackle the issue.

Asked to reveal when Bahamians could expect to see his administration’s new crime strategy introduced in view of the most recent murders, Dr Minnis said last week: “I think the minister of national security is doing all he can to bring the plan out as aggressively as he can.”

Anyone with information on any of these homicides is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.

Investigations continue.