HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Police say they’re looking for the suspects of a double homicide on one of many island’s busiest streets, who they’ve described as two males on a dark-coloured motorbike with a lined licence plate.
In a press release, the Bermuda Police Service (BPS) additionally appealed for calm, including that one of many victims died on the scene and the opposite on the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. They mentioned a 3rd individual, a male, stays within the hospital with a gunshot wound to his decrease extremities. The authorities haven’t disclosed the names or ages of these killed and injured.
“The suspects are described as two males on a dark-coloured motorbike with a lined licence plate. The rider wore a black helmet with a balaclava, a long-sleeved blue prime, gray trousers, and tan colored boots. The pillion passenger, who’s believed to be the shooter, wore a black full-face helmet with a multi-coloured prime,” in accordance with the police assertion.
It mentioned that “an investigation into this brazen assault is ongoing” and appealed to eyewitnesses to return ahead.
“The Bermuda Police Service is conscious of a video in addition to a picture of one of many victims on the scene, circulating on social media. In the event you obtain such materials, don’t share it; as an alternative, please delete it out of your gadgets,” the assertion added.
Appearing Detective Superintendent Jason Smith mentioned the police are asking for “calm in our neighborhood, and because the Bermuda Police Service conducts this investigation, we ask in your help.”
The newest incident got here as police proceed their investigations right into a weekend capturing on the Southampton Rangers Sports activities Membership that left a 19-year-old man nursing gunshot wounds.
Smith mentioned a lone gunman had “indiscriminately shot at” a bunch of males gathered close to the membership’s entrance, and the police mentioned the suspect in that case wore a black and gray jacket, black trousers, and white sneakers, in addition to a black helmet with a darkish visor.
