Police have identified the victim of Monday’s fatal shooting near Derek Walcott Square in Castries.
He has been identified as Jahiem Papius of Baboneau, pronounced dead at the scene by a medical practitioner.
Another male was in critical condition after Monday’s brazen daylight shooting, which occurred at about 2:15 pm.
Eyewitnesses reported that the shooters fled through the city on a motorcycle, leaving bystanders scrambling for cover and the two victims, bleeding from gunshot wounds, on the grass of Derek Walcott Square.
A woman who lost her son to gun violence in Vieux Fort in April last year wept profusely after witnessing the aftermath of Monday’s deadly gun violence.
“I seeing this young guy there. It reminds me of my son. I just lost my son and seeing that is too much,” the woman lamented.
“Too much. Too much. Too much killing. It has to stop. Somebody, please. Please do something about it. Please,” the tearful woman told reporters.
She begged for an end to the bloodshed.
The woman noted that the Christmas season is approaching and suggested that the victim of the fatal shooting might have already been preparing to celebrate.
“Every time some parent losing a child. You know how that makes somebody feel? Not to mention if that person had children. The children probably waiting on daddy,” she told reporters.
A male individual recalled hearing rapid automatic gunfire and seeing people running for cover.
He said he later saw two men on the ground, one of whom was apparently dead and the other trying to move around.
The man said he had never witnessed such a brazen crime.
“I was within range of the bullets,” he told reporters, adding that stray bullets could have hit anyone.
“And that is frightening,” the man stated.
A photo on social media showed a vehicle parked near the Derek Walcott Square with what appeared to be a bullet hole.
“Better it hit a car than an innocent bystander,” someone posted.
