BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO person are currently in custody at the Basseterre Police Station assisting the police with their investigation into the murder of the owner of Elvis Love Shack Bar & Grill.
According to the Police Press and Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Stephen Hector, police on Saturday (Jan. 28) arrested two persons on suspicion of the murder of Elvis Stanley of Old Road.
Stanley was shot to death shortly before midnight on Thursday (Jan. 26) while driving his vehicle along the Anchorage Road in Frigate Bay.
Information reaching this publication stated that after closing his Bar & Grill Stanley, his child’s mother and his teenage son were in his car travelling along Anchorage Road on their way home when the incident occurred.
This media house learned that midway along that road, a vehicle that was in front of Stanley’s slowed down, blocked his path and while he was tooting his horn an unidentified individual emerged from the bushes on the right and opened fire on the occupants.
Stanley was shot and he died on the spot.
His child’s mother, who was seated on the passenger’s side of the car, was also shot and shortly thereafter rushed to the JNF General Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery and is said to be in stable condition.
One of the bullets grazed his son on his right thigh and he managed to open the door and ran to a friend who resides at the St. Christopher Club.
The teenager was taken to the hospital shortly before 2:00 a.m., where he was treated for his wound and discharged.
The shooting death of Elvis Stanley takes the total to two homicides committed in the Federation for the year.
The first was that of 28-year-old Desroy ‘Piggy’ James of Hermitage Extension, Lower Cayon, who was shot on the night of January 7 while walking with a friend along a track some 30 metres west of his home.
