By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#TurksandCaicos, November 2, 2022 – Footage obtained by Magnetic Media, taken just minutes before the shooting death of Paul Missick in the Bight last week, is giving residents, for the first time, a chilling insight to the gang war being waged around them.

Based on the articles of clothing worn by men in the video, and the images which emerged following the death of Missick on Wednesday October 26th, this video captured Paul’s last living moments and they were not happy.

The video begins with four men in the frame, two of them dressed in green and grey shirts respectively, seem relaxed initially leaning against an old vehicle. The man, wearing the grey shirt printed a white #35 has been confirmed as Missick.  The other two men are next to them, one wearing a red shirt is seated while the final man, clad in a dark shirt and still standing, does the talking.

Magnetic Media has extracted the audio of that conversation. While much of the audio is distorted the speaker can be heard saying.

“-come check myself, see which one a yall talking to the police…the police comin stop my money…tell me who’s talking to the police now let’s get this over with one time.”

Throughout the two minute recording he repeatedly asks “Who is talking, who the — is talkin?”The conversation continues in low tones for about a minute before the speaker asks loudly enough for it to be easily heard in the recording.

“…Still have the cameras up? The camera still up?”

At the sound of this question the man in red who has been seated for the duration of the video tries to stand and is pushed back down by the man in the dark colored shirt. The conversation gets more frantic as he orders: “Sit down, sit down!” And then, once more he asks, ”The cameras still up?” The man in the dark shirt then speaks to someone who is not visible on screen and orders them:  “Go inside. Get the —- in. Hurry up. ”

On Monday, as the Turks and Caicos recorded another in a suite of ruthless gang related killings, a glaring pattern of irrational behavior has emerged.

Several seemingly desperate and ill-informed murder sprees prove some of these gangsters are grasping at straws. One example is the death of Paul Missick where despite the young man repeatedly denying being an informant, he was gunned down anyway.

That video shot minutes before Missick’s death shows the perpetrator himself isn’t even sure who the informant he’s looking for is, as he repeatedly asks  “Who’s talking to the Police?”

The senseless nature of the killings are evidenced in the murderers repeatedly opening fire upon people who could not possibly have been a threat to them, for example: a three year old toddler;  his seven year old sister; an American tourist on vacation; a reportedly pregnant woman; at least two teenagers, one boy and a girl; an innocent father and others.

At least two cars were shot up in the last six months in incidents described as mistaken identity by residents. The latest, two defenseless women who, seemingly at random, had their car followed and shot at before the attackers suddenly fled the scene. The jury is still out on who those men might have thought they were actually following.

The shootings and murders underscore the desperation and barbaric nature of the perpetrators as they repeatedly claim the lives of innocents.

That video filmed on October 26 laid bare a man shooting desperately at Missick and the man in green, they frantically run off and the video ends.

Magnetic Media can confirm that both men were pursued and shot; left by the roadside to bleed out and that Missick, a father himself, did not survive the attack.

Notable is the fact that the alteration appears to have taken place in a semi-public area in broad daylight. Multiple people cross in and out of the video frame going about their business and cars pass by on what may be Leeward Highway.

The video recording adds another terrifying layer to an increasingly fearful situation for residents, confirming what many already knew, a dangerous criminal underworld exists in the Turks and Caicos.  It also exposed the main players in this ‘dark side’ of Provo are now out and about, with renewed vigor, hunting down those they believe are informing Police of their nefarious activities.

Since the brutal killing of a four (including the unborn baby of the woman shot to death) members of a family on Halloween night in the Dock Yard area of Providenciales, there has been a new murder.  This time, a young man is shot execution style in Blue Hills on Thursday November 3.

It is the seventh murder in eight days for the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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