{"id":244993,"date":"2004-02-10T18:42:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/02\/night-club-manager-shot-dead"},"modified":"2004-02-10T18:42:53","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T23:42:53","slug":"night-club-manager-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/02\/night-club-manager-shot-dead","title":{"rendered":"Night Club Manager Shot Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shooting occured around 5 a.m. when Mr Bain drove into his driveway. It is believed he managed the 601 Nightclub. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>According to Chief Superintendent Hulan Hanna, the lifeless body of Bain was found lying in the middle of McKinney Drive and Rocky Pine Road. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;Sometime around 5 a.m. the victim arrived in his F-150 truck licence plate number T17089. Apparently after coming out of the vehicle, he was accosted by two armed males,&#8221; he said. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Mr. Hanna stated &#8220;shots were heard as the victim ran from his home.&#8221; Minutes later he was discovered lying on his back, lifeless, in the middle of McKinney Drive with one gunshot wound to the upper left chest.&#8221; <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>As investigators continue to piece together what happened, Mr. Hanna said a motive for the death is unknown. He said investigations were continuing and appealed to people in the community with information to give the police a call at 328- 8477. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>At the house next door to the incident, Mr. Hanna said a vehicle was damaged. A government vehicle parked near by had the rear passenger window shattered. Additionally, he said the front windshield of the victim&#8217;s truck was also damaged. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Meantime, family members are trying to come to grips with their relative who was described by his niece Nicky Deal as a &#8220;no-nonsense person.&#8221; <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>She said her uncle was a kindhearted person who always sought to help people in need. &#8220;His dearest love was his two children,&#8221; she said noting that he had a 21-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;Everyone is shocked and devastated,&#8221; she said and left wondering why the event took place. &#8220;What are individuals thinking, you can&#8217;t have anything without someone else wanting it,&#8221; she said. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>By Jimenita Swain, The Nassau Guardian<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightclub promoter Wilbert Bain, 44, became the country&#8217;s third homicide Monday morning when he was shot and killed by two men yards away from his McKinney Drive home.<\/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-244993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244993","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=244993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}