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2019 Murder count for TCI running neck-in-neck with record setting 2018 and there are no arrests, yet
#Providenciales, August 21, 2019 – Turks and Caicos – Insufficient information in the shooting death of Lloydel (LJ) Swann, the 22-year old from Grand Turk who died over the weekend at hospital in Jamaica may be hindering the classification of his death.
While some have labelled it murder, TCI Police are still not offering any clarity in the case where the young man turned up at hospital in Grand Turk on August 10 with a head injury so severe that he was transferred to Providenciales hospital and then medically evacuated to Jamaica.
LJ died of complications from the gun shot, but there is no information to the public on how he came to be shot or why.
To date, the Turks and Caicos Islands – if LJ’s matter is counted – is neck in neck with 2018 statistics on murder.
The year 2018 reflected a 100 percent increase in the murder count; from four homicides in 2017 to eight in 2018.
Now, at the eighth month of 2019 the Turks and Caicos is even or almost even with that historic 2018 murder count.
ONE. Obed Dupree, 19-years-old was murdered in a targeted shooting on April 8, 2019 in Providenciales. It was said that young Dupree was walking home.
TWO. An Unknown Haitian man was murdered in a vicious fight in Kew Town on April 12. The man, the deceased reportedly attacked first was also badly hurt, hospitalized but escaped the hospital and there has been no information from Police or any authority about this runaway killer. Both men were unknown, unidentified and believed to have been illegally residing in the TCI.
THREE. Marlo Glinton, 37-years-old was said to have driven himself to Police after being shot in his car. That homicide was recorded on April 23.
FOUR. In Turtle Cove, also in his car, is where Colton Walkin, 27-years old lost his life on June 2. It was again a shooting death.
FIVE. The sickening report of Bahamian-TCI music legend, Sly Roker being gunned down in his home in Blue Hills, Providenciales made headlines in both countries. Roker was 66 years old at the time of his death.
SIX. A gruesome scene on his front porch was shared over social media on a July 27. Lorand Prospere, 23-years old and of Five Cays was found dead, apparently shot to death on the day of his mother’s funeral.
SEVEN. Mere days later, another 23-year old man was killed while at a hang out on South Dock Road. The man died at hospital of a gunshot wound. A Haitian man, new to the island and we are told his name was Job.
EIGHT (maybe/possibly). LJ Swann was shot on August 10 in the only incident from Grand Turk; he took himself to hospital complaining of a head injury and had to be airlifted for further medical care. Swann is believed to have passed away on Sunday August 18 at the age of 22.
Even more disheartening in this morose commentary is the fact that no one is being held accountable for committing any of these heinous crimes.
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Wilkie Arthur and Deandrea Hamilton
Turks and Caicos, September 13, 2024 – A barking dog is what drew attention to the baby left abandoned on a couple’s front porch in Kew Town, Providenciales on the morning of Tuesday September 3.
Discovered by a husband and wife, they reported to Eagle Legal News Media that they emerged from their residence to see what was going on, and were stunned to discover a most unexpected cause for the fuss; a baby boy, clad only in diapers, sitting outside on their porch.
“…it left me wondering and baffled as to how or what could have gotten into a mother and/or possibly a father to just abandon their baby on a total stranger’s porch…” said Wilkie Arthur, who picked up on the story and spoke to those involved in the sensitive case.
The Safeguarding and Public Protection Unit of the Royal TCI Police Force was immediately called in to investigate the peculiar
matter. It was described as emotional by an officer who opted to speak off the record, but candidly about the rare situation.
“Speaking to a female officer, whom we can’t name, due to the sensitivity and confidentiality of this case, she stated this was the most painful incident she’s ever heard of in all her years serving as an officer.”
It broke her down to tears informed the news blast which went out early on the morning of Wednesday September 4.
Communication with the TCI Police revealed that: “On Tuesday, 3rd September, the police responded to a report from a resident in the Dock Yard area of Providenciales that a child was found alone on their porch.
Officers responded to the address where a male child, approximately one-year-old, was found in the resident’s custody. Officers transported the child to the police station, and the Safeguarding and Public Protection Unit of the RT&CIPF and the Department of Social Development were informed.
Enquiries commenced, and investigations revealed that the child had been left in the care of an elderly relative who had fallen asleep. The child managed to unlock a door and wandered off.
Given the circumstances, the relative was given a stern warning by officers.”
Residents of Dock Yard in Kew Town were in a state of shock over the situation. Initially no one had claimed the child. As stated by police, the child has since been reunited with his family.
Wilkie Arthur
Eagle Legal News Media
Turks and Caicos, September 13, 2024 – In case one, allegations of a brother, of Dominican descent, raping his own sister and then hanging himself. In case two, allegations of another and known Dominican man after being deported or repatriated returns to the Turks and Caicos as a stow away and allegedly drowns.
Eagle Legal Court Correspondent was in the Coroner’s Court for the past two weeks when various different coronial matters were called.
The learned Coroner delivered her final decision on the two coronial matters mentioned above.
We will report on case number #1, “Allegations of brother raping sister, then killing himself.”
GABRIEL ESMIL DURAN, lived in Dock Yard, Kew Town, Providenciales. He was born in 1976 and allegedly hung himself in November 2021. His sister, whose initials are A V D, gave police a statement of her brother raping her about 12 hours before being found hanging with a rope around his neck.
The Hon Coroner relied on that statement to help aid her in her decision.
The sister said, her brother was drinking earlier that day, and after the sexual assault she ran out of the house and hid herself in the bushes until the morning. It was said that she told someone about the sexual assault. She said around 9pm she checked the door, it was locked, but in the morning the door was unlocked. The Coroner said there was no evidence of anyone entering the property, but one of her concerns was how the door got unlocked.
There was also information or evidence about his partner catching Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic, and that possibly weighed heavily on him.
Due to insufficient evidence surrounding the “police provisional suicide death” of Gabriel Esmil Duran, the learned Coroner did not reach the conclusion that this was a suicide death and her decision in the coronial matter was an “OPEN CONCLUSION”, which means if any further evidence was to ever come forward in this particular case, the coroner could reopen it.
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