By Gerrino J. Saunders
Bahama Journal News editor

A young man lost his life and two others escaped after engaging police in a shoot
out in the Kemp Road Community on Tuesday morning shortly after 9am.
Police say they were on routine patrol when officers attached to the Mobile
Division were in the Kemp Road community when they received alerts from
ShotSpotter technology indicating gunfire in the St. James’ Road area.
Responding to the scene, officers say they observed a silver Japanese vehicle
occupied by three males. Upon noticing the police, the suspects sped off,
prompting a vehicle pursuit. The pursuit ended when the vehicle was intercepted
on Cooper’s Terrace.
At that point, police report that the three suspects exited the vehicle and discharged
multiple shots toward the pursuing officers.
In response, the officers who were in fear for their safety returned fire with their
service weapons, resulting in the fatal wounding of the male driver of the vehicle
that had self drive or rental plates.
The other two suspects managed to escape the scene by running through a shortcut
leading toward Whites Road.
As the investigation continues, police are appealing to the public to come forward
with any information related to this incident or other criminal matters that may
assist their investigations.
You are asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at 502-
9991-3 or 919. Furthermore, anonymous tips are encouraged and can be submitted
to Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS (8477).
There was also a fatal police shooting on Wednesday Februaary 26 th on Palm
Beach Street when an off duty officer confronted a male in his mid 20’s who
brandished a firearm and confronted him ordering him to drop his weapon.

However, police reports said the male instead fired his weapon at the officer who
returned fire fatally wounding him in the area of the Haitian Mission Baptist
Church Palm Beach Street.
There have been several high profile fatal shootings in the Kemp Road area this
year, including the Sunday morning January 26 th ambush killing of 34 year-old
Mario Brown with surveillance video of the shooting going viral on social media.
It is alleged that Brown, a father of three was involved with gang and drug dealing
activity and was known to police. At the time of his death brown was on bail for
the murder of a man who was shot and killed while at Potters Cay Dock.
He could be seen sitting on his motorcycle talking to someone in the yard of a
walled residence when a silver vehicle pulled up next to him and three masked
men armed with high powered weapons exited the vehicle and began firing
gunshots at him.
He tried to quickly ride off on the motorcycle but lost control after being shot
several times. One of his assailants then chased him and fired several more shots
at him at point blank range before returning to the vehicle and making good their
escape. It was the fourth murder for 2025 and remains unsolved.
This is not the first time an incident like this happened outside the very same
residence. On December 3 rd 2020 another young man was shot and killed outside
the same home.
On Saturday May 3 rd shortly after 12 midnight 31 year-old Elroy Rolle was shot to
death while sitting in a black Japanese vehicle on Williams Lane off Kemp Road
near Uriah McPhee Primary School where he was attending a party. The Culprits
fled the scene on foot through a short cut heading in the northern direction.
A 15year-old male resident of Kemp Road has since been charged with that murder
which was at the time the 28 th murder on record for 2025.
On September 23 rd three masked gunmen emerged from a white Japanese vehicle
on James Road off Kemp where police first engaged the three men that resulted in
the fatal police shooting on Tuesday.
The assailants in this incident shot into a group of men standing in the back yard of
a residence fatally wounding three of them resulting in the death of a 23 year old
male who was shot in the back and a 54 year old male shot in the head. A 72 year-
old male was shot to the upper body survived. It resulted in the 62 nd and 63 rd
murders this year.

In addition to Kemp Road other communities that have been plagued with repeated
gun violence include Fox Hill, Bains and Grants Town, Montel Heights, parts of
Englerston, Coconut Grove, Flamingo Gardens, Nassau Village and Pinewood
Gardens.