FRIDAY, JANUARY 03, 2025
VOLUME 119, No.01
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MAN FOUND DEAD IN VEHICLE:
HOMICIDE 54
Glenroy Fraser, originally from Spring Village but residing in Montreal, Canada. The Police Public Relations and Complaints Department said that the police were informed at approximately 1:30 a.m., on Saturday that a vehicle had been spotted over an embankment in Kelbourney. Their response to that report led to the discovery of the body. As news of Fraser’s death circulated, a report surfaced that he was at an event hours before he was killed. Police are said to be reviewing footage from Glenroy Fraser, the 54th homicide in SVG for 2024, surveillance camera was said to be a fun-going and generous person. from the event venue and surrounding areas Stories by KENVILLE HORNE to determine if Fraser left alone or in the company of someone. A VINCENTIAN/ CANADIAN MALE, who A voice note has also been making was on holiday in his homeland, was the rounds, in which a female by the found dead a vehicle on Saturday 28th name of Becka and someone alleged to December in the West St. George be Fraser, could be heard in a heated community of Kelbourney, sometime confrontation, resulting in the female after 1:30 am. accusing the man of physically hurting According to reports, the man was her. found in the backseat of a rented Up to last Monday night, a woman vehicle with gunshot injuries. His was said to be providing assistance to mouth was taped and his hands and the authorities in their investigation. feet bound. The vehicle was Additionally, as part of their exhibits, discovered over an embankment. the police were able to successfully The deceased was later identified as
MAN FOUND DEAD IN HOPEWELL THE BODY OF A MAN was found in his house in Hopewell with a gunshot injury, on Thursday 2nd, January, 2025. The man has been identified as Lorenzo Lewis better known as ‘Lovie’. The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear, however sources told THE VINCENTIAN that the man was seen in Richland Park the
day before his death. “He does do welding and other work, but he is kind of dishonest, so I don’t know if it’s something he took from somebody why he was killed,” said one source. The news comes on the heels of a report that a man, allegedly intoxicated, fell off a wall and died in Richland Park on New Year’s Day.
acquire the rented SUV, as well as a shell that had been used in the crime. Fraser’s death marked the 54th homicide for year, one short of the record homicides committed in the 2023. In its investigation, THE VINCENTIAN encountered a friend of Fraser who described him “as a hard-working young man and once you and he good he will give you anything. He would spend and enjoy himself.” “A relative of the dead man said that he came home on vacation, but he
Below: The vehicle, appearing to be damaged, in which the deceased was found.
was robbed and killed over jealous and apparently some kind of woman thing.” Promoters and friends paid tribute to Fraser on social media, with many describing him as a friendly person, who is always the life of the party.
DIAMOND WOMAN ABDUCTED AND BEATEN money. The woman is said to have told her attackers, two men and a woman, that she had no money after which they put a bag over her head, placed her in a vehicle and drove her to the Leeward side of the island, leaving the child alone in the house. Reports are that the woman was badly beaten but at one point when the bag was removed, noted that it Is this the beginning of a near trend looked like she was somewhere in in SVG? Campden Park. The woman was thrown out of a A WOMAN WAS TAKEN from her vehicle in the area of Gibson Corner, home in Diamond on Saturday night, where she was noticed by a motorist December 21, 2024, beaten and who assisted her in contacting the dropped off somewhere between police. Gibson Corner and the top entrance to A Police officer instructed the Walker Piece. motorist to take the woman to the According to a police report, Milton Cato Memorial Hospital intruders entered the woman’s home (MCMH), where she received medical in Diamond where she was alone with attention and was interviewed by the a child, beat her, and demanded lawmen.