The suspects are currently being interrogated to determine their involvement in the murder.
Immediately engaged on the spot, the gendarmes of the company of Saint-Martin and of the EGM 12/6 of LODEVE deployed an important disposition of operational search aiming at arresting the perpetrators of this act. Those searches were not successful. Concurrently, the inquiry is carried out by the search squad of Saint-Martin. Up to the wee hours of the morning, the investigating officers, supported by a technician in criminal identification, engaged in operations of technical and scientific police on the crime scene. During the day of Tuesday November 23, the investigations enabled to identify two individuals likely to have taken part in the crime and revealed serious elements against them.
At dawn on Wednesday November 24, some thirty gendarmes belonging to the intervention squad of mobile gendarme squadron, of the surveillance and intervention squad of the company and squad community of Saint-Martin proceeded with the arrest of two individuals in Marigot. House searches started immediately at their homes. Presently into custody, they are questioned by the investigating officers of the search squads to determine the involvement of each in the act and examine the reasons which lead to the murder.
Wounded with lead shots in French Quarter.
On Tuesday November 23 early in the afternoon in French Quarter, a 29 year old man notoriously known to the services of Gendarmerie is wounded in the back with lead shots. He is transported to the hospital of Marigot for treatment. His life is not in danger. On the premises, the investigating officers of the squad communities of Saint-Martin and search squads proceeded with the verifications and undertook the first hearings. At the present state of the investigations, the circumstances of the shots have to be determined. The investigation is carried out by the community of squads of Saint-Martin.
Attempt at burglary in Mount-Vernon: a young man wounded with a bullet.
On Tuesday November 23 early in the afternoon at Mount Vernon, two individuals entered a house through an open window in order to commit burglary. After striking the homeowner's head with a bat, they are taken by surprise by the presence of a young man upstairs. A shot is fired, wounding the latter in his leg. He is transported to the hospital for treatment. At their arrival on the spot, the investigating officers of the search squad and the squad communities of Saint-Martin proceeded with the first steps of the investigation. The two individuals fled rapidly, a zone search control was immediately deployed in the vicinity of the residence by the gendarmes of the company of Saint-Martin and the EGM 12/6 of LODEVE, but the perpetrators were not found. The search squad in possession of the facts is going on with the investigation.