BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, June 18. 2018 - POLICE have identified 33-year-old Ronaldo Jeffers of St. Peters, as the male that was slain in last evening’s shooting in College Street Ghaut.
The force’s Public Relations Department in a statement today confirmed that after 8:00 p.m. on June 16, they received a report of a shooting incident at College Street Ghaut.
Police said that units along with members of the Emergency Medical Services responded, and, upon arrival found the motionless body of Jeffers in the driver’s seat of a motor bus he had been driving, with “what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds about the body and to the head”.
Investigations by the law men so far have revealed that, during the evening, Jeffers parked in the area and was in the vehicle “when a lone gunman rode up on a bicycle and shot him multiple times”.
The district medical officer visited the scene and pronounced him dead. Members of the Crime Scene Unit arrived, processed the scene and collected items of evidential value.
Police investigations into the matter are ongoing. Persons with information regarding this incident are urged to call any Police Station or the Violent Crimes Unit at 467-1887, 467-1888, 662-3468.
This latest incident has brought the number of homicides in the federation to 15 for 2018, with 4 on Nevis and 11 on St. Kitts.
