The scene on Robinson Road last night after a woman was hit by a stray bullet and killed as she went to a prayer meeting. Photo: Racardo Thomas/Tribune Staff
A WOMAN who was on her way to a prayer meeting was shot by a stray bullet and died on Robinson Road last night, police said.
Assistant Superintendent Audley Peters said the woman was shot by a gunman who was firing his weapon at another man. The male victim was also wounded and is in hospital, police said.
Police were alerted to the shooting on Robinson Road opposite Ida Street around 7pm.
ASP Peters said the incident took place when a group went to a home to collect a friend and were approached by a gunman.
“A party went to a house to collect a friend,” he said at the scene. “On their arrival at that residence they were approached by a male who left that residence brandishing a firearm. The male ran from that residence and as he ran, the suspect who brandished the firearm started to discharge that weapon at him and as a result he ran south along Ida Street onto Robinson Road.
“The suspect continued discharging his firearm and as a result, the lady, who was exiting a vehicle to attend a prayer meeting at a church here on the grounds, was shot in her chest and face several times.”
Responding officers found her lying on the ground. She died from her injuries at the scene.
ASP Peters said the male victim who ran from the scene collapsed on Washington Street and Robinson Road.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment for injuries to his lower body.
The woman victim’s age and identity were not known up to press time.
Police are asking anyone with information on this shooting to call police at 502-9991, Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS (8477) or the nearest police station.
Comments
John 2 years, 11 months ago
The most dangerous thing is a young punk with a weapon. When he panicks he will become reckless and continue to fire the weapon regardless of who may get hit. Even jail is too good a place for these animals who obviously don’t respect or value human life. The justice system is failing the innocent, law abiding citizens of this country, many who are becoming victims to crime and others who are dying from stray bullets. Then the criminals lay up in Fox Hill and get fat on the taxpayer’s dime. This unfortunate victim was shot in her chest and face several times. Obviously the shooter didn’t care who got hit by his bullets.
John 2 years, 11 months ago
How effective is the shot spotter/camera system that conservative governments claim to have invested so many millions in? If shots are fired the shot spotter supposed to activate the camera system that is supposed to alert the police and assist in helping identify the culprits. Likewise if a crime is reported the camera system is supposed to help police monitor the area for any fleeing vehicles or suspects. In some countries these devices are very effective. And because crime has been so significantly reduced, police even use them to monitor simple things like littering.
GodSpeed 2 years, 11 months ago
The guy that the murderer was shooting at more than likely knows who the murderer is, just get the information from him.
John 2 years, 11 months ago
If it was a hit then most likely he doesn’t know him. Read the story below the headline one. Guy just got released from jail. So most likely he doesn’t know the shooter. But they may be able to connect the dots.
GodSpeed 2 years, 11 months ago
just need some good ol' fashioned police work, however the shot spotter system is ideal indeed. I wouldn't mind if they put a camera on every lightpole, the only cause for concern is the ease of it being abused by those in power.
SP 2 years, 11 months ago
So successive governments gave all the blue-collar jobs to ex-pats and now acting surprised when Bahamians are forced to resort to crime for survival!
The worst is yet to come as 1000,s more finish school each year with no skills or jobs to look forward to.
Our country was destroyed by the policies of the PLP and FNM!
Dawes 2 years, 11 months ago
Yes thats right, we only have crime because of the ex-pats.
GodSpeed 2 years, 11 months ago
This is the result of poor parenting, or people that aren't fit to have children bringing them into the world, it begins in the home.
Proguing 2 years, 11 months ago
Trying to justify this woman's death because of expats, shows the gutter level of thinking in this country...and some dare to wonder why we are not like Singapore (a city full of expats by the way)?
annmon 2 years, 11 months ago
This is the realist statement I have seen in a while!! I totally agree with you!!
mandela 2 years, 11 months ago
Well, this is only going to get worse, with the grade average at D and 30% of the already D average not having had any kind of schooling for the past two years we are truly in trouble, big trouble.
John 2 years, 11 months ago
It is a LIE to say that young Bahamians have no skills. And that LIE has been perpetrated for too long. And yes, it is turning more and more individuals to crime. Not because they don’t have skills, but because they are not getting hired. Compare the workmanship of Atlantis, where Bahamians did most of the work to Tge Pointe or Bah Mar that was done by foreigners. Even after dressing up the work cosmetically, it doesn’t compare. And this ‘’D’ average narrative is continued by idiots and persons who are part of the agenda. Most skilled craftsmen and tradesmen are not ‘A’ or’B’ or’C’ students academically. But they are skilled with their hands and in their craft and are physically able to carry out such labor. Working at great heights, long hours and doing heavy lifting. Bahamians are being systematically excluded from the work force in their own country. And unfortunately high crime,even cannibalism crime is a result of this. And the proof of this is that on the islands where most of the population is working, especially the young men, crime is close to zero. Check out Grand Bahama or Abaco or Eleuthera or Exuma or most of the other islands for that matter. But in Nassau crime has become almost the norm. And government must find a way to get young males back in the mainstream. The system continues to breathe criminals because the alternatives don’t offer much difference. No one can justify murder, even the accidental killing of an innocent person in persuit of another. This killing machine has been active on New Providence for three decades at least. The point is the persons that were doing the killings 20-30 years ago are not the same ones committing murder today. So what does that tell you?
Emilio26 2 years, 11 months ago
John the people the paint spew this “D”average narrative are Bahamian social media junkies such as Graham Weatherford and C. Allen Johnson just to name a few.
John 2 years, 11 months ago
That is not fully correct. It started with foreign investors who wanted to exclude Bahamians from the labor pool in favor of cheaper labor or a labor pool they can control like slaves. And so the cry they made to government and Immigration was that Bahamians were lazy and didn’t want to work or that they were not qualified. And government and Immigration eventually bought the story. So whilst a lot of work was carried out in this country by foreigners, Bahamians sat at home unemployed and begging for bread. Minnis went as far as to allow construction in the height of the Covid pandemic to appease foreigners, yes foreigners! And it wasn’t until ( foreign ) workers at the US Embassy started falling I’ll in large numbers did they decide to shut the site down. Several other construction sites out West and elsewhere had to shut down because they were bringing in foreigners who brought Covid with them and made local workers sick.
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
Get your facts straight. Most of the construction work at Atlantis was done by foreign labourers. I remember only too well the many low-cost Filipino labourers brought into our country by Sol Kerzner to work day and night to build the main phase of Atlantis in record breaking time.
John 2 years, 11 months ago
The finish work was done mostly by BAHAMIANS. They brought n the foreigners for the cheap labor but eventually Bahamians learned the trade. Even at The Pointe, when the Chinese grew wary of Covid and asked to return home to China, additional Bahamian craftsmen were hired and were able to salvage some shoddy work. And Bahamians were also working the 8 hours on, 8 hours off as well as the 12 hours shifts.
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
ZZZZZZzzzzzz......
SP 2 years, 11 months ago
Regardless of the ex-pats' normal nonsensical chatter here, the matter is easily hypothetically quantified.
What would be the resultant effect if the Bahamas allowed another 30,000 ex-pats' to occupy low-skilled white collar and blue collar jobs?
Secondly, the Bahamas is no Singapore! Singapore's GDP grew 7.2% in 2021, on the back of 5.9% Q4 growth. Singapore's economy grew 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, bringing full-year growth to 7.2 percent.
Singapore has a REAL government constantly improving robust economic growth allowing them to sustainably absorb a steady flow of expats', compared to the Bahamas where successive governments totally failed to keep development on par with population growth made exponentially worse by unfathomable out of control illegal migration AND expats' occupying jobs Bahamians should have.
No ex-pat' would agree he is not needed here, or truthfully admit his being here is a major contributor to unemployment which leads to crime.
This bullshyt ex-pat "go-to" narrative that "it starts in the home" is fodder for idiots. IT starts in the belly and with the unmet needs of desperate people trying the ONLY WAY LEFT TO SURVIVE!
Proguing 2 years, 11 months ago
You really need to crawl from under your rock. Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Dubai even the Caymans have a very open policy towards expats This is what enabled them to become wealthy. Look at the USA. They dominate the world in technology because they are able to attract the best minds on the planet. There is no country with a protectionist policy that ever became wealthy. That is a fact, and that is why the Bahamas will never be like these countries.
Dawes 2 years, 11 months ago
Which ex-pats do you blame for this crime. Is it all or only those doing certain jobs, and if so what jobs?
SP 2 years, 11 months ago
Singapore GDP 340 billion USD (2020), Switzerland GDP 748 billion USD (2020) Luxembourg GDP 73.26 billion USD (2020), Dubai GDP 410.16 billion USD (2021), and the Caymans have a very well managed migration policy total population of 63,131. Mixed 40%, White 20%, African descent 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20%.
Comparatively, the Bahamas is a joke on every imaginable front to these other countries, which by the way take good care of their own citizens first.
The rate of crime is an undeniable indicator that the country is speeding down the wrong path making further disaster inevitable.
At some point in the foreseeable future, some of you smart-ass ex-pats are going to insult the right group of people just enough with your "family bashing" bullshyt to make yourselves targets, and when that line is crossed it's a one-way street.
Carry on smartly!!
Dawes 2 years, 11 months ago
Well i hope when those Expats are forced to leave they don't go back to their countries and demand that any of us Bahamians over there are treated the way you want to treat them over here. You know the tens of thousands in the US, Canada and elsewhere.
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