Carnival celebrations in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been marred by the shooting death Monday morning of a man in the heart of the nation’s capital, as revellers were going home from J’ouvert celebrations.
Akeem Bess, 27, of Ottley Hall, died at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in Kingstown around 11:20 a.m. Monday, where he had been taken after being shot several hundred yards away more than an hour earlier.
Witnesses say that Bess was shot multiple times just outside Plant Shop, an entertainment spot near Lower Bay Street and Rose Place, that has the scene of a number of shootings over the past few years.
One witness said that a man wearing a blue hoodie shot Bess then in the direction of the beach in Rose Place after committing the crime.
When iWitness News visited the scene Monday morning, Bess had already been taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, and there were reports that he was dead.
However, his mother, Roxanne Bess-Johnny, told iWitness News that her son had been taken into emergency surgery and that he was “fighting for his life”.
A senior police officer told iWitness News shortly after noon that the constabulary had been informed that Bess had died.
Bess’ death comes just about 18 months after police had issued a wanted-person bulletin or him in connection with a January 2017 robbery in Edinboro.
On Monday, as police began their initial investigations, homicide investigators went to the home of a man who himself had been shot and injured inside Plant Shop a few years ago.
Police left the home without apprehending anyone.
Isnt time they close down that place!!
Any one who knows Kingstown and the owner of this place know a what goes on there …
Man must live , but its time for this place to go
TARGETED KILLING
This appeared more of a ‘…Targeted Killing’ than it was with ‘…Carnival reveling.’
Last month, it was a vendor who appeared to have ‘…lived and died by the sword’
[Sister wants justice: Searchlight News]. This month is another victim of gun violence.
These speak to ‘…gun proliferation; …easy access and frequent use by ‘…trigger-happy
gunmen, resulting in sorrowful consequences.
Moses Law dictates the declaration of war on ‘…reckless gunmen and cold-blooded killers.’
Law enforcement may wish to use every available means ‘…lawful or unlawful,’
in removing these ‘…dangerous elements’ from the rest of society.
UNMENTIONED FACTOR:
Mr. Pompey, you inadvertently omitted mention of – – –
ILLICIT and NARCOTIC
DRUGS.
Which our “wutliss” politicians, to use PM Gonsalvez’ term, are racing with INDECENT HASTE to approve, authenticate and ‘legalize’.
Please, doan mek me drive ‘pan the same road as those “HIGH” drivers.
It only goes to show that MONEY, bald-headed CAESAR’S IMAGE, counts! (Oh, how we lust for it – – – even selling our youth in the process.)
As does misguided political votes of perceived “voting chattel”.
Follow the money.
Sorry, but our whole society seems to have gone to proverbial POT.
There are no real statesmen in our West Indian polities today.
SVG and the Anglophone Caribbean will go the way of decadent Rome, along with the more developed cosmopolitan European and North American nations.
Hopefully, a more pristine civilization will replace us.
Or, we may well prepare for . . .
Another punk bites the dust!
Wow !!
It seems as if the chickens have come home to roost and now is being eaten at the dinner table.
Close the business or put in security measures.
Every Monday morning police raiding that business place and every Tuesday morning some kind of killing going on around there what happens kisses goes by favor. Time to step in before more lives lost.