A 31-year-old Jacmel resident, Kade JnBaptiste, also known as Kape, was shot and killed in Coolie Town, Marigot, on Wednesday night.
According to police, officers from the Marigot Police Station responded to reports of a shooting in the area around 7:50 p.m.
Upon arrival, they discovered JnBaptiste, a resident of of Derrière Lagoon, Jacmel, unresponsive and with gunshot wounds to the torso.
Personnel from the Saint Lucia Fire Service attempted to render assistance, but he succumbed to his injuries at the scene. A medical doctor later confirmed his death.
The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force has launched an investigation and is urging anyone with information to contact the Marigot Police Station at 456-3895, call the Crime Hotline anonymously at 555, or use the RSLPF Crime Hotline App, available on the Google Play Store.
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The system does not care about the young men that are losing their lives because of crime. But if it was a woman all the groups would be making statements and protesting on the street sp where are the men’s group to speak out on the behalf of our men . It’s like the life of the average man is nothing in this country . There is no one to represent the young men in the country
I completely agree with Bipolar and have said this many times on this forum. Programs, education, jobs and many other activities are biased in their gender focus. Also there are very few role models for young boys and young men in this society due to absent fathers. But men should not shoulder all the blame – it takes two to tango and parental responsibility on both sides is needed. While the young girls and young women have strong female role models (albeit often with children from multiple partners – not a good example really) but they take care (mostly) of all their children and often work as well and the latter may serve as motivation for young females to get ahead. There is also a macho culture that a lot of young men get caught up in – not only in St Lucia, but throughout the world. The difference here is, being a developing country (!) there are few activities to counteract this negative approach to masculinity. It’s both a community and government responsibility to deal seriously with this issue. I acknowledge that there are individual programs set up by community members to assist with the problem, but it needs a whole of government approach (and funding) to create the holistic tackling of this terrible, terrible blight on our country. Young men have so much to contribute but so many are caught up in negative activities which often lead to their death. Not commenting on this case specifically as I don’t know the background, but no matter what an individual does, it causes great pain to their parents and families when they die in their prime. It is a pain that never goes away and irreversibly damages our society…