POLICE CONTINUE TO HUNT for the elusive killers in six unsolved murders for 2014 as gun violence left only three parishes untouched.
So far there have been 23 killings, six of them stabbings, two as a result of strangulation and the others shootings. There was at least one killing each month of the year except for October when none was recorded, while four each were reported in April and August.
The only parishes to be spared bloodshed were St Andrew, St John and St Joseph. Violence claimed the lives of 12 people in St Michael where some victims were gunned down in the street.
All the fatal wounds of the six victims in the unsolved cases came from the barrel of a firearm, which was the most common weapon on this year’s murder list.
Assistant Superintendent of Police David Welch said that the Royal Barbados Police Force was making steady progress in the investigations of the unsolved matters and, in relation to the gun violence, lawmen were working with international agencies to track the movement of weapons into the island.
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