Police Recover Bike Used In Shooting
[Updated] The police have appealed for witnesses to the shooting this past weekend, saying they suspect the gunmen were on a dark coloured motorcycle wearing dark helmets, and were travelling in a westerly direction on Cavendish Road before discharging several shots in the Reid Street, Spurling Hill area.
The incident took place at approximately 3:50am on Saturday [Mar.24], and resulted in shots being fired into Sir John Swan’s Seon Place office building.
A police spokesperson said, “It appears that two persons on a dark coloured motorcycle wearing dark coloured helmets were travelling in a westerly direction on Cavendish Road before discharging several shots in the Reid Street, Spurling Hill area. The suspects then made a U-turn and travelled in an easterly direction down Spurling Hill.”
“At the time of the shooting there were numerous patrons attending and leaving a nightclub in the area who may have witnessed the incident.”
“Investigators would like to speak to any patron, motorist or pedestrian who may have been in the vicinity at the time. Any person who has any information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the Serious Crime Unit at 247-1365 or the independent & confidential Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-8477.”
Update 12.51pm: The police said they have recovered a motorcycle and other items that they believe were used in this crime, the full statement follows below:
Detectives from the Serious Crime Unit are also continuing their investigations into the shooting that occurred outside ‘Shine’s’ club on Reid Street in the early hours of Saturday morning at about 3:50am.
Officers investigating the incident have recovered a motorcycle and other items that they believe were used in this crime. Forensic testing of these items has been conducted as detectives pursue lines of enquiry regarding the perpetrators, in order to bring them to justice.
We are keen to speak with anyone that may have witnessed the shooting that has not already been seen by the police, or anyone that has any information relating to the incident. Anyone who has any information is encouraged to contact the Serious Crime Unit at 247-1365 or the independent & confidential Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-8477.
Dark male, dark bike, dark helmets, dark visors. I see a pattern here.
Really? Amazing detective work there, BPS. Pretty sure there is CCTV in the area…..track a number plate maybe?
More proof that NONE of the CCTV cameras are actually hooked up yet and that they are merely a way of pacifiying the public to believe that they are safe, just like the ankle bracelets that have no actual GPS hook up or monitoring. THE BPS and Bda Government need to stop lying to the public about these two issues and tell the truth.
Perhaps you should vent your frustrations to the people who are eye witnesses to such incidents and refuse to say anything.
Or the enablers or the ones who turn a blind eye to the criminal elements inour society.
Police and Gov’t can only do so much….
we should be looking for dark coloured motorcycle and dark helmets…thats easy DARTH VADER is the one your looking for!!
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bullet proof windows ,love it Sir John! moving in soon!
Are they going to ban dark colored bikes next? Just wondering…………..
…or dark colored males?
I concur ban everything dark, not trying to make fun of the continuation of these serious crimes, however people are calling for dark visors to be banned. So here goes dark bike, dark helmet,dark visors, dark jacket, dark person.
Hold Up Hold Up Hold Up!…..You mean to tell me that there were no police officers in the area at that time????…..Police are slow off the mark…Why police are never outside night clubs or around night clubs during closing time?????….Knowing town is a hot area or any night club for that matter.
Or are the police at their own party at the Police Club having donuts and chocolate milk?
Exactly what I said, minus the milk and donuts
Please they are around on Front Street. They don’t care about the other “folk”.
U mean they ain’t worried about protecting the safety of black folks.
Yup.
Oh please, if the police were positioned outside your “Folk” clubs , you would be bitching that blacks are being picked on by racist police or some dumb sh@t
Oh, good grief…sing the same old song, why don’t you? Front Street on weekends is well-known for numerous fights, knife attacks, drunk drivers in droves…get it through your heads. They can’t be everywhere all the time. Do you expect them to be psychic? They’re supposed to know that at 3.45bthat morning this guy was going to walking along behind Seon Place and get shot at? PUH-LEEEZE. There have been no incidents of THIS nature there before…
On another, possibly more CONSTRUCTIVE note…why can’t bikes be kitted out with an identifier of some sort? Embedded into the license sticker or something that would show to whom the bike belonged? Just a thought.
No I would not. They should be outside patrolling ALL CLUBS/BARS, places that are frequented by large groups of people + involving alcohol. That’s common sense for police to be present. I can’t help it if the harsh facts bother you. You must be racist if it got you that hot and bothered.
That comment was to Mike A$$hole. I mean Auxard.
There are plenty of police on Front St at closing time, (3:00am for clubs) Then there are police at Ice Queen after 3 on the weekends. I have seen them at both locations. Very sensible I think. This was outside Shines at 3:50… Why is Shine’s still open then?
These things happen so quickly that unless there was a police unit sat there, they have little chance of catching them in the act… here’s how it happens –
1. Bike approaches, passenger on back takes out gun and fires.
2. People hear gunshots and duck for cover
3. Someone composes him/her self enough to pick up their cell and dial 911
4. “Which service, police, ambulance or fire?”
5. “Police there’s been a….”
6. “Please wait while I transfer your call”
7. “Police, how may I help you?”
8. “There’s been a shooting outside Shines”
9. “Did you get a description of the shooter?”
10. “They were riding a dark colored bike, dark clothing and tinted visors”
11. “Hold the line please ma’am”…
12. Police dispatcher radios information to armed police units, who may be on Front Street, or patrolling the ‘high risk’ areas
13. Let’s say the nearest armed police unit was up St. Monica’s – they have to come down The Glebe Road, across Parsons Road, up Court St and over to Shines.
Now – how long do you think the above will take? Enough time for the perpetrators to have made good their escape in the ‘rabbit warren’ of streets and alleys adjoining Shelton Road, Happy Valley Road etc. perhaps?
If the police were there, the shooting may/probably would not have happened…and there would be no discussion
Now, Im not saying that this is good… definitely it would be better that they were there and the shooting didnt happen… my point though is that this is all in hindsight.
I have not heard of major incident’s in that area before.. and if there was a cop there, its not like we would be commending them for “stopping the shooting”…. we woudl effectively be ignoring the fact that the cop’s presence stopped a shooting because we would not have known about it…
this is basically a case of silence normally, and we can only voice oru concerns when they are NOT there… they could have stood post 360 nights a year… but out of the 5 if something happened once then everyone complains where were the cops??
How can u buss shots in twn n not get caught. D Po Po are all Sissys
What language is that?
OH u mus b a farana! dats da nashunil langage….it coms wid a new flegg!