Two arrested men still in custody
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A press release from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force’s Public Relations Office today (Feb. 2) states that an autopsy performed on the body of the late Elvin Elvis Stanley revealed that death was due to gunshot injuries to the chest with haemorrhage and shock.
According to the release, the autopsy was performed between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. today by Barbados-born Forensic Pathologist Dr. Stephen Jones at the JNF General Hospital.
Stanley, the proprietor of Elvis Love Shack Bar & Grill situated on The Strip in Frigate Bay, 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 to his Old Road 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 blowing 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 40-year-old Elvin 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.
Meanwhile, the two men who were arrested on Saturday (Jan. 28) on suspicion of Stanley’s murder have not been charged or released. They are still in custody at the Basseterre Police Station.
When contacted this afternoon, Police Press and Public Relations Officer Sergeant Stephen Hector confirmed that the two men were still in custody and no charges have so far been preferred against them.
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