NASSAU -Two men faced attempted murder charges today in a shooting that nearly killed two-year-old Danyla Roberts in Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera.
Antonio Neely, 25, (in blue shirt) and Marcus Saunders, 34, (in white shirt) also faced four counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life in connection with the June 27 incident.
Prosecutors say that the men endangered the lives of the child’s grandmother Maxine McQueen-Gibson, Spencer Gibson, Terrance Taylor, and Navar Roker.
They were not required to enter pleas to the charges when they appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney. They’ve been denied bail and return to court on September 4.
According to police, Ms. McQueen-Gibson was holding her grandmother as she sat on the front porch of her home when two men arrived in a car.
After an exchange of words with the child’s grandmother, one of the men opened fire, hitting the child in the stomach.
