A teen suspected of housebreaking was shot by police yesterday and was in hospital in critical condition, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police said the 18-year-old suspect of St. James Road, off Shirley Street, was shot around 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Officers were responding to a housebreaking on Reivax Drive, Penny Saving Bank Subdivision, when they were confronted by the suspect armed with a knife, police said.<\/p>\n
Police did not provide further details.<\/p>\n
Asked about the shooting yesterday and whether police shield information regarding shootings which involve officers, Commissioner Ellison Greensalde said, \u201cWe are not protective when there is a police-involved shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we do particularly when it is a fatal police-involved shooting, is we ensure that Her Majesty\u2019s coroner is notified and attends at the scene and we move to wrap those investigations up at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe file is then passed to [the coroner] and the investigation is not complete. [The coroner] will then convene a coroner\u2019s inquest if he or she so determines and further investigate if there is culpability on behalf of the police.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had matters where police officers have been charged as a result of rulings from a Coroner\u2019s Court.\u00a0 At the same time where there is no culpability, [the coroner] is able to report to the family that there is no culpability and the shooting is justified.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to The Nassau Guardian\u2019s records, there were 22 non-fatal police-involved shootings this year so far:\u2008three suspects were shot by police in February; two in March; one in April; three in May; four in June; five in July; two in August and two in September.<\/p>\n
Additionally, there were six fatal shootings. One suspect was shot dead by police in March; one in April; one in May; two in June and one so far in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those files have gone to [the coroner],\u201d said Greenslade, referring to the fatal cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a person in this community brandishes an illegal firearm or even a legal firearm but points it at a police officer, the officers are going to react and do what is necessary by law.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve looked at all of the files and I am satisfied that all of them would have been investigated and that they have all gone on to [the coroner].<\/p>\n
\u201cIn all of those cases except one, the victims were armed with illegal firearms. In all cases year-to- date, and while I have my feelings about them, the commissioner does not have that opportunity to speak to what my opinion is because the matter is with [the coroner].\u201d<\/p>\n
He said police take those cases very seriously.<\/p>\n
Krystel Rolle<\/strong><\/em><\/span> According to The Nassau Guardian\u2019s records, there were 22 non-fatal police-involved shootings this year so far:\u2008three suspects were shot by police in February; two in March; one in April; three in May; four in June; five in July; two in August and two in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[93,31,142,38],"class_list":["post-25763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-incompetence","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Nassau Guardian<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"