BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – POLICE are investigating the murder of Miguel Robinson, popularly known as Bashment, of Lime Kiln who died last night (Feb. 17) under a hail of bullets in Haynes Smith Village.
According to Police Press and Public Relations Officer Sergeant Stephen Hector, the 29-year-old was “shot multiple times about his body while at Four Ways Bar in Haynes Smith Village by two masked men. The District Medical Officer visited the scene and pronounced him dead”.
SKNVibes visited the scene early this morning and observed two technicians of the Crime Scene Department combing the area, where they found a number of spent shells and other items of evidential value that they took into custody for further analysis.
Speaking with some residents in the area, a number of them, under the condition of anonymity, told this media house that shortly before 9:00 p.m., Robinson had purchased and eaten a meal at Razba Ital Shop on St. Johnston Avenue just before his shooting-death.
“I was told that Bashment went and eat at Razba and he wanted a bottle of water but Razba didn’t have any. So, he parked his scooter by Razba and walked to Four Ways Bar at Union Ally. When he reached the shop, a lot of persons were there including a Police Inspector. He hailed up some of the boys and suddenly a shot rang out and Bashment fall to the ground just outside the shop.
“Bashment doesn’t normally lime in this area and I believe that he was followed, because two masked men were seen while he was entering the bar. One of them was at the alley opposite the shop and the other was in the alley west of the shop. The first bullet hit Bashment in his head and when he fall the two masked men went over him and pumped more bullets into him. They then run through the alley west of the shop firing bullets and made their escape along St. Johnston Avenue,” one individual said.
This media house also learnt that upon hearing the first shot fired and seeing Robinson falling to the ground, most of the customers in the bar ran away from the scene while a number of others sought the nearest possible cover for safety.
“The gunmen knew exactly who they wanted to kill and they had to be following Bashment, because nobody else was injured though many persons were in the bar. They could have fired shots randomly into the shop, but they did not. They fired one and that had to be an aimed shot; it hit him in his head and after he fall they fired seven more shots into various parts of his body,” another individual told SKNVibes.
Robinson’s death has taken to three the total murders committed in St. Kitts 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.
And the other was that of 40-year-old Elvin Elvis Stanley of Old Road and proprietor of Elvis Love Shack Bar & Grill at the Frigate Bay Strip, who was shot on the night of January 26 while driving his vehicle along the Anchorage Road on his way home with his children’s mother and their teenage son.
