BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – POLICE are investigating the death of a St. Paul’s shopkeeper who was shot multiple times to the body last night (Feb. 26) shortly after closing the doors to his establishment.
SKNVibes learnt that shortly after 11:00 p.m. Wingrove Parris was shot outside his business place and died on arrival at the Pogson Hospital in Sandy Point.
According to Police Press and Public Relations Officer Sergeant Stephen Hector, “Police are continuing their investigation into Parris’ death and the public is asked to contact Inspector Charles Smithen of the Criminal Investigation Department with any details of this incident.”
Parris is the second businessman to have been killed on St. Kitts while leaving his business place for the night and the fifth murder victim for the year recorded in the annals of the twin-island Federation.
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.
The second 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.
Three men – Shawne Bradshaw of Parson’s Ground, Joseph ‘Galvanise’ Hazel of Bird Rock and Keston Martin of Parson’s ground – have since been charged with Stanley’s murder.
The third was 29-year-old Miguel ‘Bashment’ Robinson of Lime Kiln, who died under a hail of bullets on February 18 at the Four Ways Bar while reportedly there to purchase a bottle of water.
And the fourth murder victim was 22-year-old Leo Herbert, whose body was discovered on Wednesday (Feb. 22) in Bath Village in the vicinity of the historic Fort Charles area with multiple gunshot wounds, including one to his head.
