{"id":17611,"date":"2018-07-09T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=17611"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:22:54","slug":"man-shot-dead-during-st-vincent-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/man-shot-dead-during-st-vincent-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead during St. Vincent carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carnival celebrations in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been marred by the shooting death Monday morning of a man in the heart of the nation\u2019s capital, as revellers were going home from J\u2019ouvert celebrations.<\/p>\n

Akeem Bess, 27, of Ottley Hall, died at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in Kingstown around 11:20 a.m. Monday, where he had been taken after being shot several hundred yards away more than an hour earlier.<\/p>

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The shooting took place at the entrance to Plant Shop in Kingstown. (iWN photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Witnesses say that Bess was shot multiple times just outside Plant Shop, an entertainment spot near Lower Bay Street and Rose Place, that has the scene of a number of shootings over the past few years.<\/p>

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One witness said that a man wearing a blue hoodie shot Bess then in the direction of the beach in Rose Place after committing the crime.<\/p>\n

When iWitness News visited the scene Monday morning, Bess had already been taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, and there were reports that he was dead.<\/p>

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Mother of the deceased, Roxanne Bess-Johnny, second from left, is consoled at the scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, his mother, Roxanne Bess-Johnny, told iWitness News that her son had been taken into emergency surgery and that he was \u201cfighting for his life\u201d.<\/p>\n

A senior police officer told iWitness News shortly after noon that the constabulary had been informed that Bess had died.<\/p>

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Bess\u2019 death comes just about 18 months after police had issued a wanted-person bulletin or him in connection with a January 2017 robbery in Edinboro.<\/p>

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On Monday, as police began their initial investigations, homicide investigators went to the home of a man who himself had been shot and injured inside Plant Shop a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Police left the home without apprehending anyone.<\/p>\n

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