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‘MY SON RAN SO WHY SHOOT HIM?’ ‘Youth engaged police’ say officers - as family wants camera footage By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net
area on foot after seeing the officers. Police pursued the suspect onto Hillbrook Close, where the man “engaged the police and was fatally wounded,” the Royal Bahamas Police Force said. EMS attended the scene where he was pronounced dead. Police said a handgun with ammunition was recovered from the deceased. The coroner will investigate, police said. Ms Richards said she didn’t learn of her son’s death until hours after he had passed, adding her son was “kind” with a future ahead of him. “All he wanted to do was fix cars,” she told The Tribune. SEE PAGE THREE
THE distraught mother of 18-year-old Kwondrick Lowe, who was killed in a police-involved shooting on Saturday, believes her son “ran for his life” when he saw the officers. She dismissed an official police report that said her son, who was 4’2”, engaged officers. “They shouldn’t shoot my child like he’s a dog,” Fredricka Richards said. Police said a man who allegedly engaged police in the Kemp Road area on Saturday was killed by officers around 12.30am. Officers were on routine patrol in the area of Kemp Road and Edwards Avenue when they saw a man with a gun. The suspect fled the
THE near threeyear absence into police-involved shootings has stirred anger in some family members who say they are still searching for answers on their loved
ones’ deaths. Fredrick Major said more than a year after losing his 31-year-old son Azario Major, the family is still upset over what happened, but is mostly disappointed that nothing is being done to confirm what he believes is his son’s innocence.
By LETRE SWEETING lsweeting@tribunemedia.net POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a three-month-old boy who was found unresponsive at a local daycare centre yesterday. The Royal Bahamas Police Force said around 8am, the child’s mother left the infant at the daycare in southern New Providence. The centre’s director later made “routine checks” and found the baby lifeless. EMS were called and the baby was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Police said that efforts to revive the infant were unsuccessful and he was declared dead. SEE PAGE THREE
MAN IN COURT OVER DEATH OF TENEISHA By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
KWONDRICK LOWE, 18, who was shot and killed by police on Saturday.
THREE YEARS WITH NO INQUESTS INTO POLICE SHOOTINGS By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
BABY BOY AGED THREE MONTHS DIES AT DAYCARE
“It’s terribly upsetting and unbecoming and it’s intentional that they’re telling us here’s what the Attorney General’s Office is saying (and) the attorney general is saying that they cannot find any prosecutors to prosecute the matter,” he claimed in a recent interview with The Tribune.
“They are spending money on everything else in this country so bring in the pending prosecutors to prosecute. They’re paying millions of dollars to clean constituencies just to put money in some PLP cronies’ pocket.” Major was shot multiple times by off-duty police on
December 26, 2021. According to police, three off-duty officers were at a business on Fire Trail Road when they spoke to a man who was “acting in a disorderly manner”. The man was warned, police reported at the time, and eventually left the SEE PAGE THREE
BLOOD BANKS ‘IN CRITICAL STATE’ By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net
PUBLIC Hospitals Authority managing director Dr Aubynette Rolle said yesterday that the country’s blood banks are in a “critical” state. Dr Rolle’s comments came after reporters asked for an update on the blood banks following an investigation being launched on the death of Kenise Darville. Darville posted a
KENISE Darville pictured in the video she posted to Facebook. gut-wrenching video on Facebook on January 11, where she claimed doctors of Princess Margaret
hospital waited several days after she was admitted before informing her that she needed to make an urgent plea to friends and family for blood donations. The mother died on January 19, after being admitted only two weeks earlier. Dr Rolle told reporters that the investigation surrounding the circumstances of Darville’s death is continuing, adding she hoped to speak with Darville’s husband soon. SEE PAGE FOUR
A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday in connection with the tragic death of three-month-old Teneisha Tanya Mifort who was left in his care while the child’s mother was at work last week. Kirkwood Thompson, 29, represented by attorney Ryszard Humes, faced Magistrate Algernon Allen, Jr, on a charge of manslaughter. According to police reports, the child was in the custody of Thompson, a family friend, on January 16. Around 11am, the man believed the baby was sleeping before he eventually noticed she was unresponsive, police said. SEE PAGE THREE
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