NASSAU- Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and another man hospitalized.
Officers were called to a shooting off Soldier Road around 10pm on Friday, August 12.
According to Chief Superintendent Michael Johnson, the victims were shot multiple times by a lone gunman.
A 26-year-old resident of South Beach died at the scene.
The second victim is listed in critical condition at the hospital.
NASSAU – A man was killed in front of his family on Saturday.
Police responded to a shooting at a home on Kenilworth Street in South Beach shortly after 10am on August 13.
According to police, the victim was in front of his home talking to other relatives when two gunmen emerged from a grey car and opened fire on them.
The man, believed to be in his 50s, was the only person shot. He died at the scene.
Police did not say whether the victim was the intended target of the shooting.
Anyone with information about the incident should call the police at 502-9991-3 or Crime Stoppers at 328-8477.
NASSAU – A man accused of raping a senior citizen during a burglary will no longer be tried.
Thorne Cooper, 28, has been released from prison after prosecutors dropped the case against him.
Prosecutors had accused Cooper of raping the the 65-year-old woman during on a home invasion on July 24, 2020.
However, the alleged rape victim died before the trial.
Consequently, Acting DPP Franklyn Williams QC issued a nolle prosequi in the case.
Cooper spent two years in custody awaiting trial on the case.
In 2015, Cooper was convicted of assault with intent to rape and armed robbery. Justice Ian Winder sentenced him to 10 years in prison with credit for the two years that he had spent on remand.
He didn’t serve the full 10 years with time off for good behavior.
NASSAU- Authorities have charged two men with the fatal shooting of 21-year-old murder accused Ayundo Louis.
Prosecutors allege that Ramero Rolle and Marvin Augustine murdered Louis at Maxwell Street in the Rock Crusher area on August 6.
Louis, who was on bail for the 2018 shooting murder of 45-year-old Okell Solomon Sr, was sitting outside a home when the occupants of a black car shot him multiple times.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Rolle and Augustine were wearing ankle bracelets as a condition of their bail for the 2021 murder of Stervante Moss when they allegedly killed Louis.
They have been remanded to prison and return to court on November 29.
NASSAU – A mother whose 11-year-old son went unidentified for three days after he drowned has been charged with child cruelty.
Stephanie Hanna, 41, took days to report Gerodo Taylor Jr missing after he was found drowned in a pond near the golf course in Yellow Elder on August 2.
Hanna, who was brought to court in shackles, pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors allege that she neglected her son on August 1 and “allowed him to go into a yard with a body of water that was not sufficiently protected to prevent him from drowning.”
Hanna was granted $7,000 bail and her trial is set for November 14.
NASSAU- Authorities say two men are in custody in connection with the drive-by shooting on Saturday that claimed the life of a 21-year-old man.
Police responded to the shooting on Maxwell Street, around 2pm on August 6.
Aldios Lewis, of Polhemus Street, was in the back of a home with other men when the occupants of a black hatchback opened fire, hitting him multiple times.
Lewis died at the scene.
Police said they believed the deadly shooting was retaliatory.
At the time of his murder, police said Lewis was wearing an ankle bracelet as a condition of bail for an unspecified offence.
NASSAU-A man has been charged with the murder of his alleged accomplice.
Prosecutors say Miguel Lewis, 26, was shooting at four men on bail for murder when he accidentally shot his accomplice, Ken Lewis Jr, in the head on July 25.
Lewis appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney on August 2 charged with the murder of Ken Lewis.
He’s also accused of the attempted murders of Donald Cox and Leander Cox, who are brothers, and their friends Marquin Williams and Randy Mackey at Pigeon Plum Street in Pinewood Gardens.
Lewis did have to enter pleas to the charges.
He’s been remanded to prison until October 11.
However, he has the right to seek bail in the Supreme Court.
NASSAU- A man has been charged with the murder of four-year-old Kenton Seymour Jr who was caught in the crossfire of a shooting.
Police have charged 22-year-old Shanton Munroe, whose street name is Scum Dum, with murder and other offenses stemming from the July 26 incident.
Prosecutors say Munroe was shooting at Dasheano Joseph on Fleming Street when the innocent toddler was shot and killed.
Kenton’s parents, Kenton Seymour Sr and Norma Smith, were taking him for ice cream when their car was hit by a stray bullet.
In addition to facing the murder charge, Munroe is charged with the attempted murders of Kenton’s parents and Joseph.
He’s also accused of having a gun to endanger their lives.
Munroe told Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt that he had been falsely accused.
Munroe was remanded to prison because the magistrate doesn’t have the power to grant bail for the offenses.
However, he can apply for bail in the Supreme Court.
Munroe’s next court date is December 7.
Man jailed for gunshot damage to home
NASSAU- A man on bail is recovering in hospital after he was shot in the street.
According to police, the victim was walking along Bernard Road around 2am on August 1 when he was confronted by “a group of males” who shot him.
The victim, who is wearing an ankle monitor, is in stable condition, police said.
NASSAU- A courtroom erupted in chaos on Friday when the daughter of murder victim Necola Cox threatened to kill the woman accused of fatally shooting her mother.
The emotional woman disrupted proceedings before Magistrate Shaka Serville when she made the death threat to Elsa Ferguson, who stands accused of Cox’s death.
The incident exposed a potential security threat, as the woman was sitting behind Ferguson, when she made the menacing outburst.
The cramped court does not have a prisoner’s dock, and members of the public routinely sit immediately behind suspects.
Police detained Cox’s daughter with a view to charging her.
On the other hand, Ferguson told the court that she didn’t want to press charges against her former lover’s daughter.
Prosecutors say on April 17, Ferguson opened fire on Cox and her girlfriend, Vernitta Adderley, as they stood outside a home in Pinewood Gardens. Cox was shot and she died of her injuries in the hospital.
Ferguson is charged with Cox’s murder and the attempted murder of Adderley. She’s also accused of having a firearm with the intention of endangering Adderley’s life.
Ferguson is being held without bail. She is next due to appear in court on September 28.
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