Cole Bay:--- Officers from the detective and forensic department are busy investigating the shooting of a Dominicano man in Well Road, Cole Bay next to Ace Mega Center. Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson confirmed that the police were called at 2:50pm on Monday December 26th and informed that someone was shot. Henson said when police arrived on the scene they found a lifeless body. The police spokesman also confirmed that there was a wound on the victim's body.Eyewitnesses on the scene identified the victim as Raoul (40) from the Dominican Republic. An eyewitness said a Rastafarian man went into the victim's house demanding monies and even though he was given some monies he still shot Raoul dead. A friend of the victim said the shooter shot the victim in front of his wife. SMN News also learnt that police has since taken the woman into custody to possibly obtain a statement since she was the main eye witness.
However, bystanders at the scene said the victim's body was at the scene almost two hours after the fatal shooting as police waited on their doctor to pronounce the victim dead.
Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson also confirmed that the police waited for over an hour on the doctor. Henson said that the victim was not showing any signs of life but the doctor took a long time before getting to the scene to pronounce the victim dead.
Monday's shooting has marked the 17th confirmed homicide for the year 2011 while police has not yet given a definite conclusion on the electrocution death of Latoya Brison and Oliver Petit whose body was found on a porch on December 6th in Madame Estate. Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said that his office is waiting on more forensic information on both cases before they can determine if Brison and Petit were killed or if they died accidentally.
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