BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - AUTOPSIES were performed on the bodies of shooting victims Akeem Parris (29) and Kyle Williams (36), both of Carty Alley, Newtown, as well as 37-year-old Jerrald Mc Donald of Conaree.
According to a police communiqué, Resident Pathologist, Dr. Adrian Nuñez had performed the autopsies on Parris and Williams on Friday (July 30) and that of Mc Donald yesterday (Aug. 5).
Dr. Nuñez concluded that Parris’s death was as a result of hypovolemic shock due to a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, and that Williams’s death was as a result of hypovolemic shock due to multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
According to a previous police communiqué, sometime after 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday (July 27), officers responded to a report of a shooting incident in Newtown.
Upon arrival, they found the motionless body of Williams lying on George Street in the vicinity of Carty Alley.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Williams and Parris were sitting at the junction of George Street and Carty Alley when armed masked assailants approached and fired several gunshots in their direction.
Both men were struck several times and Williams died at the scene, while Parris was transported to the JNF General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Investigations into this matter are ongoing.
In the case of Mc Donald, Dr. Nuñez had concluded that death was due to mechanical asphyxia, secondary to drowning.
Police have stated no foul play is suspected.
In a media statement, police reported that their investigations had revealed that on Monday (Aug. 2) Mc Donald went out to sea with a group of males to do tankless spearfishing and to dive for whelks off the island of Redonda.
Sometime after 7:00 a.m. on the day in question, he went diving and did not resurface.
Reports also indicated that the other individuals had searched for him and he was discovered several meters away from the fishing vessel in an unresponsive state. They then took him ashore and called the authorities.
The police responded, as well as the St. Kitts-Nevis Coast Guard, the St. Kitts and Nevis Customs and Excise Department and the Nevis Air and Seaport Authority.
However, Mc Donald was pronounced dead by the District Medical Officer.
