Police has launched an intense island-wide search for two armed suspects responsible for the shooting death of a man that occurred on Tuesday.

According to reports, around 5 p.m., a man was walking on Podoleo Street with another man, when two males armed with handguns approached and fired several shots at them before fleeing on foot.

The victim received multiple gunshot wounds and died from his injuries on the scene. The identity of the victim is being withheld pending identification by next of kin.

In other crime news:

Shortly before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Veandro Rahjiv Ferguson of the Forest Exuma, who escaped lawful custody from the George Town Police Station on Monday, turned himself into police on that island.

Ferguson was in custody for unlawful sexual intercourse.