The Nassau Guardian
Two shot dead in Abaco
Two men were shot to death in Abaco over the weekend, according to police.
Superintendent Noel Curry, officer-in-charge of the Northern Bahamas, said yesterday that police were trying to determine if the murders are connected.
The first victim was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds.
Police said the man was found slumped in the passenger side of a Nissan Maxima, which was parked on a dirt road, off S. C. Bootle Highway, around 3 a.m. Saturday.
An emergency medical official pronounced the man dead.
Police said they had not determined a motive for the shooting.
The second murder victim was found six hours later.
Police said he was lying on Bahama Coral Avenue.
A local doctor pronounced him dead on the scene, police said.
Curry said six men have been taken into custody in connection with the murders.
Police had not yet determined if any of the suspects will be charged.
Officers from the Central Detective Unit (CDU) in Grand Bahama were in Abaco assisting in the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
Before Saturday, there had not been a murder in Abaco since late 2012.
The Abaco murders brought the national murder count up to six for the year.
This same time last year there were also six murders.
Last year ended with 119 murders, according to police.
DRUGS
In other crime news, police arrested an additional four people, including a woman, in connection with a $2 million drug bust in Grand Bahama last Wednesday.
Police said the suspects include two residents of Nicholl’s Town, Andros, and two residents of Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama.
According to police, officers were monitoring a 42-foot speedboat between 9:30 p.m. and
11 p.m.
The boat eventually pulled up on a beach in Holmes Rock and a group of men began unloading several bales into nearby bushes.
Officers retrieved the stashed drugs and discovered another 41 bales of marijuana aboard the boat, police said.
The drugs weighed more than 2,000 pounds.
Police said charges could be brought against the suspects this week.
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