CHARLESTOWN, Nevis – AFTER some six weeks of relative calm, the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis yesterday (Nov. 17) recorded another homicide in the shooting-death of a 56-year-old Nevisian on that island.
According to a police communiqué, officers responded to a report of shots being heard at about 2:30 p.m. on the day in question in Zetlands Village, Gingerland, where they discovered what appeared to be the lifeless body of Lincoln Liburd of Craddock Road, Charlestown.
It also stated that Liburd’s body bore signs of what seemed to be gunshot injuries and he was pronounced dead on the scene by the District medical Officer, Dr. Shandy Jacobs.
SKNVibes understands that Liburd was a husker and had plied his trade around the island in a maroon-coloured minibus.
According to informed sources, he was shot multiple times, including his head and back.
Sources also claimed it appeared that Liburd was shot in a nearby abandoned building and he attempted to run to his vehicle but died before reaching it.
Lincoln Liburd’s death has taken to 21 the number of homicides committed in the twin-island Federation for the year; eight on Nevis and 13 on St. Kitts.
Meanwhile, there was report of another shooting incident on that island yesterday.
Police reported that sleuths from the Nevis Division are investigating a shooting incident in Cotton Ground, in which preliminary investigations revealed that a number of workmen were on a job site when two masked gunmen exited a vehicle and fired shots at them.
The workmen took evasive action by fleeing from the scene and none of them had suffered any injury.
This media house learned that police had discovered more than two dozen spent shells at the scene.
The police are urging anyone who might have information regarding these two incidents to contact the Gingerland Police Station at 469-3448, the Cotton Ground Police Station at 469-5269 or their nearest police station.
