CHARLESTOWN, Nevis – JUST two days after the shooting death of the Police Commissioner’s son, another young man was killed while on the premises of his employer in Nevis.
Information reaching this publication states that Gary Smithen of Brownhill was shot this afternoon (Apr. 8) at Pennyless Tyres & Hoses, situated on Pump Road, Stoney Grove, Nevis.
He was rushed to the Alexandra Hospital but died before being operated on.
According to the Police Press and Public Relations Officer (PRO), Inspector Vaughan Henderson, at about 2:55 p.m. today, police at the Nevis Division received reports that a man was shot at Pennyless Tyres & Hoses.
“Members of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Nevis Division responded immediately, and investigations revealed that Gary Smithen of Brownhill was inside the tyre shop when a masked gunman entered and shot him a couple of times,” Henderson said.
The PRO, at the time, did not receive word of Smithen’s death. He however stated that the young man was transported to the hospital undergoing emergency treatment, and that police were processing the scene as investigations were ongoing.
Shortly after, however, this media house was informed that Smithen had died and that he was on his lunch break when the masked man shot him.
Smithen’s death brings to seven, the number of homicides recorded in the twin-island Federation for the year; six on St. Kitts and one on Nevis.
