Wed, 2016-06-22

Assistant Commissioner of Police Antoine Daniels - I wish to begin by extending sincere condolences on behalf of the Bermuda Police Service to the family, friends, close community and sporting colleagues of 30 year old St. George’s resident Fiqre Crockwell, who tragically lost his life on Monday morning.

This has been an extremely traumatic experience for everyone involved especially considering the number of people who were present in the Woodlands Road area at the time of the shooting.

The negative impact a single incident like this has on the community as a whole is profound, especially when we consider that Mr. Crockwell was a young man who was in the prime of his life, a father, brother, uncle, son and friend.

This marks the second shooting death of 2016 and the 29th overall since 2009, when Bermuda began to experience an increase in violence involving firearms.

When we consider that 29 men have lost their lives to gun violence and 63 on our roads alone in the preceding 6 years this has to cause concern in the Bermuda community with continuous loss of our young men.

Tackling criminal gangs is the number one priority for The Bermuda Police Service.

We continue to review our operational deployments and strategies with the aim of focusing our efforts on those individuals who are likely to cause the most harm to our community.

We always encourage victims, and indeed witnesses to come forward and talk to officers.

It is also incumbent on the community to stand together and support each other when faced with those bent on destabilizing our society.

The Bermuda Police Service continues to be both thankful and encouraged by those willing to do that.

Currently there are two men in police custody and I will now hand over to Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) Acting Detective Inspector Kenten Trott who will provide an update on the investigation.

Acting Detective Inspector Kenten Trott - At 02:57am on Monday 20th June 2016 the first call was received regarding a disturbance on Woodlands Road in Pembroke Parish.

 Moments later another called was received stating that there had been a shooting at that location.

 Police officers quickly attended the scene and found the victim, 30 year old Fiqre Crockwell.

An officer provided first aid to Mr. Crockwell until he was transported to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

A full investigation immediately commenced into the circumstances surrounding this fatal shooting.

During the course of this investigation, search warrants have been conducted and other investigative leads pursued, which led to the arrest of two men - 26 and 31 years old respectively - in connection with this incident.

There were people in the immediate area where the shooting took place and we are appealing to all those who were there to come forward and assist with the investigation, if they have not done so already.

And we would like to thank those witnesses that have already come forward.

Police continue to actively conduct enquiries into the murder of Fiqre Crockwell and urge anyone with information to contact the Serious Crime Unit on 247-1739 or the confidential Crime Stoppers hotline 800-8477.

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