FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024
VOLUME 118, No.12
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GROUP CONFLICTS IN OTTLEY HALL:
ONE DEAD,
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Right: Comron ‘Boogie’ Miller was shot dead while he slept on a table in an open area of a shop in Ottley Hall.
ONE HOSPITALIZED masked gunmen and shot twice in the abdomen. THE WEST KINGSTOWN Reports are that after COMMUNITY OF OTTLEY Westfield was shot, he HALL is once again at the made a dash for the centre of gun violence in Rapid Response Unit St. Vincent and the (RRU)/Black Squad Grenadines, after two men outpost located in the were shot, one on Sunday community, to seek 17th March and another, refuge but none of the fatally, on Tuesday 19th lawmen came to his March. assistance. On Sunday, sometime “He run to the Black around 8:40pm, Connel Squad and fell down in Westfield, 26, also known front the building. Is as Connel Jack and by someone with a vehicle the nickname ‘Skiddo’, give him a ride to the was making his way hospital and that is how home when he was he reach. It’s like the ambushed by two officer na care about Stories by KENVILLE HORNE
Right: The shop where Comron Miller was shot- blurred impression and arrow indicates where he was when he was shot.
Ottley Hall people and they na make no use in the community,” said an angry woman. Another villager who said that he helped to lift Westfield into the transport, described the injury he saw. “He had a hole in the belly area from one of the gunshot,” said the male resident. Continued on Page 3.
BRAZEN SHOOTING AT THE MCMH: VISITING HOURS ADJUSTED Left: The Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, this country’s primary tertiary level medical institution, has come into focus for a reason not associated with the quality of service it provides.
CONNEL WESTFIELD/ JACK, aka ‘Skiddo’, a 26year-old resident of Ottley Hall, might just be one of the luckiest men in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, after
Connel Westfield/Jack, aka ‘Skiddo’, to date, has survived two attempts on Continued on Page 3. his life.