BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO individuals are in custody assisting police with their investigations into Monday’s (Feb. 25) shooting-death of 30-year-old Shavaughn ‘Cronic’ Hendricks.
At about 9:a.m. yesterday, while working in the Lime Kiln Housing area where he lived, Hendricks was shot and killed by a lone gunman.
Police have reported that members of the Crime Scene Unit had visited and processed the scene and collected items of evidential value.
They are however appealing to anyone who might have any information regarding this incident to contact the Violent Crime Unit by dialling 467-1887 or 467-1888, 662-3468 or by calling the Crime Hotline at 707, as investigations are ongoing.
Shavaughn ‘Cronic’ Hendricks’ death has taken to eight, the number of homicides committed in the twin-island Federation for the year; seven on St. Kitts and one on Nevis.
The first victim was 28-year-old Jelani Liburd of Craddock Road, Nevis, who died at the Alexandra Hospital on Tuesday (Jan. 22) after he was shot in the Stoney Grove area on Tuesday (Jan. 1).
The second and third homicides occurred sometime after 10:00 p.m. on Friday (Feb. 8) in the Green Tree area, where 33- year-old Musa ‘Ziggy’ Warner and his 22-year-old cousin, Shakeem Warner, both of Green Tree, Old Road, St. Kitts, were shot. They were transported to the JNF Hospital where they later succumbed to their injuries.
The fourth homicide victim was 28-year-old Eric ‘Jun Jun’ Thompson, who, on arrival at his Ponds Pasture’s home, was shot multiple times by a lone gunman at about 10:00 p.m. on Monday (Feb. 11).
The fifth victim was Vere Amory, also known as ‘Stiff Jacket’ and ‘Money’, of Ponds Pasture, Newtown, who was reportedly shot and killed in the Alley, Sandy Point shortly after seven o’clock last evening (Feb. 13).
Joel ‘Booyaka’ Phillip of St. Johnston Village was the sixth homicide victim. He was reportedly shot to death while asleep in his home at about 2:00 a.m. Thursday (Feb. 14).
And the seventh homicide victim was 26-year-old Gavin Rogers, who, shortly before midday on Thursday (Feb. 14), was shot to death in his Wingfield Road home.
