ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Less than a week after the murder of mother-of-five Susan Powell, yet another shooting has taken place in the Heritage Quay tourist hub.
Twenty-three-year-old MacMillan Roberts is nursing multiple gunshot wounds in hospital today, after a 2 am shooting.
According to a police press release, the Radio Range man and friends were standing in the vicinity of the General Post Office, on Lower High Street, when a lone gunman, wearing a black hooded shirt allegedly ran up to MacMillan and opened fire.
The victim was shot several times in the back, before the assailant—whose face was concealed—fled the scene, towards the vicinity of King’s Casino.
MacMillan is reported to be in stable condition. However, his wounds are said to be serious, requiring immediate surgery.
The police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the nearest police station or call CrimeStoppers at 800-Tips (8477).
The problem in Antigua is the government and law enforcement. Antigua needs a greater police presence (foot patrol; marked and unmarked cars and bikes). The police needs to be properly trained and armed AND made to patrol the streets of Antigua all hours of the day and night. It is a shame wyhat is going on in Antigua today. When the day comes that Antiguans abroad feel safer abroad than in Antigua, Antigua will really go to the dumps. That is the sentiment that I am hearing from friends and family right now. Shame on the police and the Government.
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I am really not seeing any end to this madness unless someone who knows these guys rat on them, and chances are, not even for money will that happen. Our beloved island is too open to all that is good and bad. Our ports receive too much negative influences and there is no real way of filtering the imports. We have entry by land and sea that are not all tightly screened. What will we do? This may end up in a turf war and someone will lose their only child before those who know what is going on speak up.
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Why cant the Antigua & Barbuda Law enforcer catch these criminals who parading the streets of Antigua by day and night? Or is it the fact that the law enforcement Officers do not care what goes on anymore…..I lives in Canada and I am worried about what is going on down in my Country with all these Gun Reeling Masked Men, my friend was came back up from her vacation and said that was so scared when she heard of the young mother who was gunned down on her job, because she was just in the area where the shooting took place.
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Where were the police at 200am near the post office? Why are police not patrolling in St. John’s stopping and searching persons? Where is the police chief? All hands were supposedly summonsed back to Antigua after the last shooting according to the security minister. But our police chief is invisible and silent. Perhaps he will be writing to the GG and AG demanding the senior magistrate resign because she is not doing her job again? We are in a state of crisis and the police chief is not here! We need action by our political leaders….when will the PM an Security Minister do the right thing and ask for the police chief’s resignation?
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Let me guess: They’re holding another press conference and issuing more tough sound bites for the media. More superficial gestures and empty words. This tsunami – unchecked violence and apathetic police – has been building for a long time and is just now biting us hard enough to be called a “crisis.
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Antigua has become a lawless place and unless drastic meausres are taken it will be out of the authorities control. My question is: what is the minister of security and the prime minister doing about this scourge? something has to be done very soon.
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