NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) – Bahamas police were searching for gunmen who shot and killed four people during a drive-by shooting on Friday night.
Police said that eight people were shot during the incident and that one died on the scene and the three others at hospital.
Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade told reporters that the occupants of the vehicle fired on the people “with a variety of weapons.
“We are satisfied that this is in fact the case based on the evidence and spent cases. Unfortunately as a result of that gunfire barrage eight persons from our preliminary information were shot and seriously injured, one person, an adult male, unfortunately succumbed here on the scene, three others died at the hospital.”
Greenslade described the shootings as “very, very tragic for this community and indeed very tragic for this country.
“We have recovered the vehicle which we believe was on the scene and occupied by those bad persons who left death…we are asking the public at large…who will certainly receive information about this to please call us as soon as you can, help us to take these dangerous people from our communities so that they kill no one else.”
Greenslade, accompanied by senior members of the force, assured the residents of Fox Hill that the police would not rest until those responsible for the killings were brought to justice.
“We offer our condolences to the families of this senseless incident and I make another appeal we have to stop this.
“We have been arresting a number of young Bahamian men and in some cases women, until we are blue in the face with the possession of firearms of all description,” he said, adding that despite the arrests many of these young people were back committing gun related crimes.
“They seem not to be afraid of us, the system. We are going to have to draw a line in the sand. And I really believe we have to do that,” he said, adding that “unfortunately we cannot bring back those innocent people.
“We have no information that they (the victims) were causing any stress to anyone. They were simply enjoying a peaceful which is their right to do when people came into this community and left death in their wake,” the police commissioner added.
