Breaking News: Police investigate gun shooting links
Nadia Arandjelovic
Police are investigating whether Friday night’s double shooting outside Southside Cinema is connected to two other recent gun attacks.
Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Wright was asked at a press conference this afternoon whether detectives believe there is any link between the incident outside Southside Cinema and shootings in Pembroke on October 31 and November 7.
Mr. Wright said officers were keeping an open mind, adding: “That’s definitely one of the lines of inquiry that we are pursuing.”
Shaki Minors, 26, and girlfriend Renee Kuchler, 24, were gunned down as they got into a car at about 11.20 p.m. on Friday. Both were taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The violence followed the shooting of a 21-year-old man last month and a gun attack on two men in Middletown a week ago.
Mr. Wright told the media that a small number of “well-known violent offenders intent on attacking each other” were to blame.
He said Police had identified 211 prolific offenders on the Island, some of whom have been arrested as many as 30 times in the last four years.
Read tomorrow’s edition of The Royal Gazette for more on this story.
