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06th
March 2010
SHOOTING,
ARSON LINKED?
M.G. George
(Photo)
Two views of the homes gutted by fire
Police
were this week trying to determine whether there
is a connection in a shooting Wednesday night
at Bois-Patat, the discovery of a Double-Barreled
Shotgun in the same area that same night and
the destruction by fire of four houses a few
hours later also in the same area.
And that fire has pushed the Fire Department
to quote a section of the Criminal Code to Saint
Lucians regarding open fires, a situation that
is stretching the resources of the department
in this prolonged dry spell, so much so that
water had to be trucked up to firemen battling
the blaze in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
Prior to press time yesterday there was no conclusive
evidence to link the separate incidents.
Regarding the shooting police reported that
Kurt Fontenelle was near his house when four
masked men approached him and shot him in the
abdomen and right arm. It was also reported
that his mother who came outside during the
shooting, received a bullet in one of her legs.
The mother was taken to Victoria Hospital and
discharged soon after, while her son was admitted.
Soon after the shooting, officers attached to
the Special Services Unit on patrol in the area
found the shotgun, apparently discarded in haste
by someone, according to reports reaching The
VOICE.
Police, unable to make an arrest as yet in the
shooting and detection of the firearm, have
called on the public for help. The police are
appealing to persons with information concerning
the above incidents to call the crime hotline
at telephone number 285-6105.
Lambert Charles, the Fire Department’s
Public Relations Officer said that all four
houses were completely destroyed by the fire
that swept through the area in the wee hours
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One house was all plywood,
28x16, occupier Malics Tisson; another, also
plywood built, 22x15, occupier Dudley Alexander
was also gutted as well as a plywood and concrete
structure, 16x18 occupied by Curtis Joseph.
The fourth house, a plywood structure with
galvanize, measuring 18x10 and occupied by
an individual simply named Semitt was also
ruined.
Charles noted that fire personnel were attempting
to contain a bush fire at Union when the call
came announcing the Bois –Patat fire.
Fires at Barre Denis and Ciceron also kept
firemen busy prompting Charles to caution
Saint Lucians about setting fires to brush,
garbage, grass or anything in a residential
area.
Section 449 of the Criminal Code notes that
for the purpose of preventing loss, damage,
and injury to property, any person who intends
to set fire, or to cause fire to be set, to
any tree, bush, brushwood, rubbish, guinea
or other grass, trash or cane-piece shall
first apply to the nearest Justice of the
Peace for permission and shall prove, to the
satisfaction of such justice that he or she
has given notice to all the neighbours possessing
or in charge of property which might be damaged
or destroyed by fire, if carelessly or improperly
used.
The justice of the peace, upon proof of such
notice and upon proof that proper precautions
have been taken to prevent any damage or destruction
to the property of such neighbours shall grant
permission in writing to the applicant to
burn such tree, bush, brushwood, Underwood,
rubbish, guinea or other grass, trash or cane-piece.
That permission is valid for seven days from
the date it is granted.
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