{"id":244065,"date":"2004-07-19T12:26:46","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/07\/nine-year-old-was-murdered"},"modified":"2004-07-19T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T16:26:46","slug":"nine-year-old-was-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/07\/nine-year-old-was-murdered","title":{"rendered":"Nine-Year-Old Was Murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving the results of an autopsy on 9-year-old Devon Knowles, the police have determined &#8220;beyond a shadow of a doubt&#8221; that the boy, whose body was found in bushes near his grandmas&#8217;s home was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were tight lipped about the conditions surrounding the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Police Supt. Marvin Dames would not confirm whether Devon was molested but said there were signs that he received &#8220;injuries about the body&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police have admitted they have no significant leads in locating the young boy&#8217;s killers.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day search for Devon ended in tragedy when his partially clothed body was found on June 26 in a bushy area near his grandmother&#8217;s Rosedale Avenue home.<\/p>\n<p>Supt. Dames said one of the reasons the autopsy took so long was because the police had to first determine that the badly decomposed body they found was indeed Devon&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>Devon was last seen on Wednesday, June 23 at 6am, when he allegedly went to play basketball at St. George&#8217;s Park.  He was found three days later in the bushy area.  His trousers were found near his body.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Pastor Monica Paul, Devon&#8217;s grandmother has publicy said that her grandson was brutally sodomized and murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Community concern is heightened due to the five boys who were sexually molested and murdered in Grand Bahama last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are now certain that the boy whose body was found near his grandmother&#8217;s home was the victim of foul play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}