BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – VIOLENCE continues in McKnight as three young men were earlier this evening (July 17) admitted to the Joseph N France General Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds.
According to reports reaching SKNVibes, Jameel ‘Pupups’ West, Ricky Williams and Lewis Powell were shot at about 7:40 this evening within the vicinity of Shaw and Tibou Avenues.
On arrival at the scene, this media house learnt that one man was shot in the right leg, another in the buttocks and the third one in the right arm and right chest. However, it was later disclosed that West was the man shot in the leg.
A resident in Lower Cunningham Street said she and her siblings were watching a television programme, when they hear a number of shot were being fired close to their home and together they took cover on the floor.
“We were watching TV when I heard about four or five gunshots. I immediately told my sisters to lie on the floor and I joined them after locking the front door to our home. Shortly after that, I heard somebody knocking on the door and I asked who it was. The person said, ‘Is me Tupups’, and I opened the door because he is our neighbour,” the teenager said.
She further stated that on opening the door she saw West was bleeding from the right leg and “as he was about to fall, I held him up but he collapsed in our sitting room”.
The teenager said she was scared and she asked him if the bleeding of his leg was as a result of the gunshots she heard.
“He told me that he was liming by the alley leading to his home on Shaw Avenue when a masked gunman dressed in black approached and started shooting at him,” she said.
She further said that he ran through the alley, past his home, jumped the southern fence of her yard and sought rescue in her home.
“I was very scared seeing him lying on the floor crying out in pain. So, I told my sister to call for the ambulance which came shortly after and took him to the hospital.
This has been the second time in as many weeks that shots were fired in the vicinity of this young woman’s home. On Friday, July 3, 17-year-old Sylvester ‘Syl’ Crossley of Fort Thomas Road, McKnight was shot multiple times to the body and had used the same route West had taken to escape his attacker before collapsing on Lower Cunningham Street.
A number of bullets fired by Crossley’s assailant had struck various parts of the house in which the teenager lives, and two of them were lodged in a garbage bin in the yard.
Speaking to the teenager’s father, he told this media house that he was not home at the time of this evening’s shooting and he is seriously thinking of moving to a safe area with his family.
It was not clear if Williams and Powell were shot in the same area as West, but a bystander said one of them was shot in an alley on Tibou Avenue. A source said that the three young men are in stable condition at the hospital.
This media house also learnt that no one was held in connection with the incident and police are investigating.
