{"id":29238,"date":"2012-12-12T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29238"},"modified":"2012-12-14T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:43:35","slug":"two-men-being-questioned-for-nine-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/two-men-being-questioned-for-nine-murders","title":{"rendered":"Two Men Being Questioned For Nine Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/two-men-being-questioned-for-nine-murders-29238.html\/crime-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29241\" title=\"crime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/crime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/crime.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/crime-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Police arrested two 22-year-old men on Sunday in connection with the shooting deaths of Kenton Dion \u2018Emperor\u2019 Knowles; his son, Dario Knowles, and seven other men who have been murdered in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Emperor\u2019 Knowles, 40, was taken out by machine gun fire last July, while riding a motorcycle near the roundabout at Faith Avenue and Sir Milo Butler Highway. No one has so far been charged with his murder.<\/p>\n<p>Dario Knowles, 25, was shot and killed on November 25 \u2013 nearly a year-and-a-half later \u2013 on Lincoln Boulevard off Cordeaux Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe both killings were gang related.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified suspects are also being questioned in connection with the shooting deaths of police reservist Dennis Clarke, 56; Garth Major, 41; Neremy Noel, 35; Union Village community leader Neil Percentie, 35; Oslworth Belle; Bahamasair pilot Lionel McQueen, 29, and Montez Saunders, McQueen\u2019s cousin and roommate.<\/p>\n<p>Major, of Zinna Court, Kennedy Subdivision, was the country\u2019s 104th murder victim for the year so far. He was killed outside his home late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>He was approached by two men wearing black hooded jackets as he arrived at this shortly before midnight, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Another two men were previously charged with the murder of Dennis Clarke, who was off-duty at the time of his killing.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Clarke was outside Superwash on Prince Charles Drive on May 31 when the occupants of a Toyota parked in front of the store approached and shot him.<\/p>\n<p>The two accused men, Clemson Edgecombe, 22, and Andrew Gibson, 28, are awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade is expected to make a public statement on the multiple murder investigation in the coming days, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police are also questioning a 29-year-old man of Gamble Heights in connection with the shooting death of Diego \u2018Yellow\u2019 Major, 23.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, Major, a Gamble Heights resident was found dead on Sunrise Road last week Monday with gunshot wounds to his upper body.<\/p>\n<p>Police have also identified a man who was shot early Thursday morning and died in hospital several hours later as Patrick Thompson, 22, of Bulldog Alley off East Street.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was the 103rd murder victim for 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>By Royston Jones Jr. <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Guardian Staff Reporter<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested two 22-year-old men on Sunday in connection with the shooting deaths of Kenton Dion \u2018Emperor\u2019 Knowles; his son, Dario Knowles, and seven other men who have been murdered in the country.<\/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":[31,226,219],"class_list":["post-29238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238","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=29238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}