Mdeez
Bahamian music artist Mdeez is believed to be the country’s latest homicide victim, after he was stabbed in a row following a traffic collision on Friday night.
According to police reports, around 7pm two vehicles collided at the junction of Prince Charles Drive and Fox Hill Road. The two men who were driving became involved in an altercation which resulted in one of them being stabbed multiple times.
Paramedics transported the injured man to hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Although police haven’t identified the victim, the news quickly spread through social media with tributes being paid to the star.
Julien Believe posted on his Facebook page: “RIP TO THE BEST Reggae Artist to ever come out of the Bahamas!!!! My good friend @mdeezmusic gone to violence! We suppose to go in the studio Tuesday to our song together. He supposed to go on tour next week.”
On Twitter, one user said: “Of all the things i wanted to post today. R.I. P Mdeez was the last thing i ever thought i'd type. Condolences to his family. The Bahamas lost a good man tonight.”
Another posted: “MDeez was one of my favorite Local artists. Loved his music. I always told people how talented he was. I didn’t know him personally but I was always a fan .”
A 32-year-old man is in custody in connection with the incident.
• Police are also investigating a shooting incident which has left a man in hospital.
According to reports, shortly after 7pm, the man was walking on Malvern Road, Yellow Elder Gardens, when he was approached by an armed man who opened fire in his direction, hitting him before fleeing. The injured man was transported to hospital and is listed in serious condition.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 5 years, 5 months ago
Wow. I liked his music.There are gonna be more of these if the police don't stop people from doing whatever they like on the road. Bahamians are too angry. we too crammed up, we dont have much opportunities to move up and too many fast talking politicians directing money to their pockets. Its a feeding ground for anger.
Condolences to his family and friends
DDK 5 years, 5 months ago
Decades of lack of efficient governance and rampant corruption have led our Country to this very sorry state of affairs. The status quo continues unabated. The leaders of the Country cannot or will not get it together.
Hoda 5 years, 5 months ago
I do not fully understand, why is the government to blame for someone deciding to pull out a knife and stabbing someone because they hit your car or vice versus.
ThisIsOurs 5 years, 5 months ago
It's not "this govt" or any single govt for that matter. Its the system.
What you can blame each govt for is a lack of will to change our way of being. They are satisfied as long as they are satisfied.
People are crammed up in poor conditions, poor education, goods and services out of their reach, AND its hot, its a breeding ground for anger. It's a feedback loop that you see all over the world. The terrorists, I use that term loosely, are "typically" the people who feel disenfranchised. The illegal immigration problem is another time bomb. Add to that a sense that you can do what you want and there are no consequences...we're gonna have more of these
Years ago I told a friend, if they don't address this seriously and show that the wealth of the nation is not just going to the lawyers and accountants, there's coming a day when walls and gates won't protect anybody. World ecinomic history is packed full of examples
Hoda 5 years, 5 months ago
I understand systemic violence. I suppose I worry about how much of our social ills we attribute to the system and how much we are prepared to attribute to our decisions.
In my opinion, I think we will see change in our society when we are prepared to look at and address the things that go on at the basis of the social contract - which I believe is the family unit/raising children/ teaching them right wrong/ what to value in life. Not that I could tell anyone how to raise their children, but I believe alot spins off from that.
In we look at the news stories recently, in my opinion, the system doesn't make a grown man tape a girl in a school uniform having sex or whatever then on the video tell her you need go have sex with me or I'll share it; the system doesn't make parents decide to video tape themselves beating or disciplining their child then post it on Facebook; the system doesn't make school children tape themselves having big fight in the road; who takes responsibility the young girls found in hotel with big man every month in Nassau; who raising these men to not know they shouldn't be in hotel room with little girls; who is responsible for the levels of teenage pregnancy in the country; whose responsible for men and women continuing to have children they probably can't afford.
I acknowledge economic disenfranchisement but at some point we have to take responsibility for our acts.
I've been in fender benders, but I didn't realize I could have lost my life for such a trivial thing.
banker 5 years, 5 months ago
I agree with everything that you say. But taking personal responsibility comes only after folks who are positively socialised AND are not disenfranchised.
With the vast majority of Bahamian children raised in single-parent, multiple-father families of step-brothers & sisters, and Mama working trying to support them all, it is a tough row to hoe.
We have several lost generations that think that violence is the first tool in the arsenal when getting into a conflict with a neighbour. Overcoming this kind of value-programming is impossible to human biases. Once formed they cannot be broken. Look at all of the PLP supporters here, who know in their heart of all hearts that the PLP is a criminal gang filled with human trash in its history, and yet they are still staunch supporters against all reason and logic. We have a long way to go before we reach any sort of human enlightenment based on rationality in the Bahamas.
Chucky 5 years, 5 months ago
its a very simple problem to understand. It's called structural violence. Look it up, most people are aware. It's the organized stratification of society, one which is rigged to allow a few to prosper and the rest starve. Give society only enough education to work menial jobs, just enough health care that they can make it to work, tax them to the hilt etc etc The violence part is showing up on our streets, on the playground where un supervised kids get hurt, in our home etc. Structural violence is more harmful and more violent then all the wars in history, and in our case, its deliberately and efficiently imposed by our nasty leaders, and that includes our current ones.
Godson 5 years, 5 months ago
Persons who are trained and qualified to help lift up a standard in the Country they, that is, THE GOVERNMENT, has alienated and ostracized as though we aren't part of the solution. We got leaders, and consequently, the results we deserve.
John 5 years, 5 months ago
Maybe its time to stop eating the 'even angrier whopper."
mandela 5 years, 5 months ago
I was born in the 60's love, love love, for others and oneself was the thing, living life and loving life was represented in the music. Today to feel some form of love or hear any music representing love for others and oneself is basically non-existent, back then you sang songs of love, or love orientated song, or listened to them, that was the music of that era, it is said a person practices what they preach, it is evident that the songs of today are full of violence, greed, selfishness, hate, killings, so today's generation are practicing what they preaching. Believe it or not music one of the most form of influencing the human mind and it is international.
Chucky 5 years, 5 months ago
yes what a different society we had with British rule, we at least provided education to our people, we taught them ethics, and to be civil.
joeblow 5 years, 5 months ago
... there were less single parent homes, and a certain standard of behavior was expected from all. Drifting from the christian values that formed the moral conscience of our society is at the heart of ALL our social problems. Anger and murder are only two manifestations!
ThisIsOurs 5 years, 4 months ago
Uhhhh...ummm ...I don't know if those days were any better in terms of what we got. While there was less crime there was greater racial oppression. It's like the Israelites crying to go back to Egypt. I don't know if we will ever reach better days. My hope was in the FNM but turns out that these guys are just out to enrich themselves like every previous administration. I suppose my mistake was placing my hope in man
TalRussell 5 years, 5 months ago
Comrade Mandela, believe it or not before advent social media and the smartphone it was music that was the vehicle most influenced the young people of the day, yes, no.........
proudloudandfnm 5 years, 5 months ago
Really is time now for a zero tolerance policy on violence, start a fight, go to jail, stab someone, get shot, shoot someone, get shot.
Time to start killing thugs en masse. Like every day of every week until these idiots get the message....
Sign in to comment
OpenID