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FRIDAY,
MAY 17, 2019
VOLUME 113, No.20
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by KENVILLE HORNE PERSONS WHO WERE in Kingstown, in the areas of the Kingstown Fish Market and Little Tokyo last Friday around midday, were thrown into a state of shock and panic after at least three gunshots rang out. Persons were seen taking cover, others seemed uncertain about what to do as the shots echoed. When the dust cleared and there was a semblance of calm, the interest of the many persons in the area was drawn to a man being taken into police custody. It was a strange tale of events that led up to the shooting, some say indiscriminate shooting. According to a very reliable source, the shooting developed out of an incident that transpired in the Kingstown Town Board Office, located in the Kingstown Vegetable Market. A dreadlocked man is said to have approached a Justice of the Peace (JP) at the KTB office to witness (sign) a document for him. The JP refused on the grounds of not knowing the man, upon which the man fell into a rage and began destroying appliances and items in the office. The door to the office was closed all this time, so other workers were not aware of what was taking place. They sensed that something was wrong when the man, very agitated, rushed out of the general office, and headed in the direction of the P.H. Left: Persons gathered in Veira Supermarket. front of the central Police The JP shouted to Station to catch a glimpse stop the man, but he of the man who had had already left the caused shots to be fired.
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compound of the Market. Notwithstanding, the KTB Warden, along with a security officer, gave chase and were able to apprehend him. He was returned to the JP’s office where what had transpired there was recounted, to which he responded by threatening to kill the JP. Thereupon, he was told that he would be taken to the Police Station located a short distance away from the KTB Office. On the way to the police station, the man managed to escape his captors and ran off towards in the direction of the Kingstown Fish Market. It was then that the warder drew his firearm and discharged three shots into the air, in an effort to get the man to stop.
But he changed course and continued running, only to be confronted by a junior security officer who tripped the ‘culprit’, brought him under control, and called a police officer who marched him off to the Police Station. The police confirmed that a male, Dunstan Nichols, 54-year-old resident of Glen, was taken into custody following the incident on Friday. Nichols appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Bertie Pompey on Tuesday and was found guilty to the charge of damaging property he knew not to be his own. Continued on Page 3. This street light was said to have caught one of the bullets fired into the air during the chase.