French Gypsy Taxi driver died due to traffic accident.
PHILIPSBURG:--- Another young man identified as Juancho Cannegietier was found dead in his Hyundai SUV early Monday morning. SMN News understands that the young man from St. Maarten was shot multiple times and was left to die on Margothill Road St. Peters.
Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson confirmed that police were called around 6am Monday morning to the scene of the crime where they found the body of the victim that is also known to police.
Henson said that the detectives are busy trying to see if the killing that claimed the life of Johnathan Williams is related to Monday’s killing. Henson said both men died the same way and it is necessary for police to see if the cases are linked in anyway. "Both victims were shot to death in their vehicles one day after the other."
In the meantime, A Jamaican national known as “YARDI” that drives Gypsy taxi died as a result of a road accident on Monday morning. Henson said the driver of a white I-10 crashed into the Salt Pickers round about and died on the spot. The Gyspy driver resides on French St. Martin.
Man found shot to death in his vehicle
On Monday August 6th 2018 at approximately 06.40 a.m. the Emergency Dispatch received the first a call of man who was found shot to death in his vehicles on the premises of a home on Marigot Hill road in Sint Peters. Immediately several police patrols, detectives, crime scene investigators and paramedics were directed to the address in question to investigate what had taken place.
On the scene the investigating officers located a grey colored Hyundai SUV with license plate P1554 in which they found the body of a man who was later identified with initials J.C. The investigators also noticed that the victim was not showing any signs of life and apparently was shot while in his vehicle.
The area was immediately cordoned off by the police to preserve any evidence on the scene and for the detectives to interview potential witnesses. A medical doctor arrived on the scene and pronounced the death of the victim. By orders of the Public Prosecutor the body of the victim and the vehicle he was found in were both confiscated for further investigation.
More details of this investigation are not available at this time. As soon as more information becomes available the media will be informed.
This is the second shooting which took place within 24 hours. Both cases bare similarities, which may raise the suspicion in anyone’s mind that these cases are connected to each other, however there is no evidence thus far or any facts at this time to determine this. There is much more investigating to be done.
The Detective Department, in the meanwhile, have stepped up on the amount of detectives investigating these cases and assigned them with the task to assist in solving these cases as soon as possible and to arrest those that are responsible for the shootings. At the same time Police Department is reaching out to the community to also do their part by sharing any information they have in connection with these two cases by calling 556-7498, the anonymous tip line # 9300 or you can send a private message to our Face book page.
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