St Kitts and Nevis: Weekend shootings rock the federation

Last updated: November 20, 2017 at 9:31 am

A number of shooting incidents have plagued St Kitts and Nevis since Friday, resulting in the death of one man.

Lincoln Liburd, 56, was gunned down in Gingerland, Nevis, late on Friday afternoon.

The body of the Charlestown resident was found by police near an abandoned house away from his vehicle.

Sources told WIC News that it appeared he had been shot in the building and must have attempted to return to his vehicle when he fell to the ground.

He reportedly suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

His death is the 21st murder in the federation this year, and the 8th on Nevis.

Rushed to surgery

Police in Nevis have also confirmed they are investigation a shooting incident in Cotton Ground on Friday, 17th November.

Winn FM reported that a number of workmen were on-site when two masked gunmen exited a vehicle and fired shots at some of the workmen, who all fled the scene.

No one was reported injured but around 25 spent shells were found.

In St Kitts, a 25-year-old man is in a stable condition at JNF Hospital after being shot early on Saturday morning.

“Preliminary investigations have revealed that Darren Caines and his younger brother were travelling in a car when it got a flat tyre in Saddlers,” police said in a statement.

“They stopped to fix the tyre. Upon completion, an unknown gunman came and shot Caines multiple times. They proceeded to the Dieppe Bay police station and reported the incident.

“Caines was bleeding profusely.”

Caines was first taken to Pogson Medical Center in Sandy Point before he was transferred to the JNF Hospital in Basseterre for emergency surgery.

Another Saturday gun-related crime is also being investigated by police in St Kitts, this time in Dieppe Bay.

According to officers, preliminary inquiries have revealed that at about 8.30am on 18 November, Kassim Buchanan was walking on the road towards the Dieppe Bay police station when an assailant dressed in dark clothing appeared from an abandoned house on Main Street.

The ganman chased Buchanan, firing several shots. The victim was not injured.

A police statement said: "Police officers from the Dieppe Bay police station and the crime scene unit responded and a number of items of evidential value were collected.

"One suspect is in custody assisting the police with their investigation."