On Sunday July 14, 2024 about 9:30pm, the Criminal Investigations Department in Castries received a report of a shooting in Barre Denis, Castries, which claimed the life of one male.
The Officers proceeded to the scene where they observed an unresponsive male lying motionless, bearing signs of apparent gunshot injuries. Personnel from the Saint Lucia Fire Service rendered aid and conveyed the victim to the Owen King European Union Hospital (OKEU). The victim later succumbed to his injuries and was declared deceased by a medical practitioner.
The victim has been identified as thirty-one-year-old Kerdel Amedee of Barre Denis, Castries.