BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 10, CMC- Police are investigating a series of violent incidents that left two people dead and several others nursing gunshot wounds on Monday in St. Michael, south west of here.
Police said that in the first incident, a woman that a man had been stabbed at her home and officers later found the lifeless body of Ralph Forde, 88, inside the house in Black Rock.
Police say one person is assisting their investigations and that preliminary investigations reveal that a dispute between a couple escalated, resulting in the male receiving multiple stab wounds.
Police spokesman, Acting Inspector Ryan Brathwaite, said in the other deadly incident, one man died after being shot by gunmen.
“Police units responded to the area. On arrival, preliminary investigations showed that a male was sitting on a bucket outside a residence at Hill View Close when two armed occupants of a brown motor car disembarked and discharged a number of shots, injuring that male in the process,” Insp Brathwaite told reporters at the scene.
The injured man was transported to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in a private vehicle but later died from his injuries.
Police said they are also probing another incident as gunmen on motorcycles carried out two separate attacks in the Deacons Road gangland area known as the Red Sea and the Deacons Farm public housing area.
Initial reports indicate that at least two people were injured and remain in serious condition.
“I was at home and I heard the shots. My daughter said they got gunshots outside. I just come up to when they get there and heard one of my neighbours get shot in he hand, and he was just there sitting down liming he does every day,” one resident told local media.
In a statement, the police said “initial investigations have shown that two men rode through the area on a motorcycle and discharged a number of gunshots, injuring two males …both men were transported by private motorcars to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where they are currently receiving medical attention. Investigations are continuing”.
The police are appealing to witnesses to come forward and assist with their investigations.
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