‘Oh the pain’: Family laments man killed in Abaco
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The sister of the country’s 12th murder victim is stricken with grief after learning that her brother was killed in Dundas Town, Abaco on Tuesday night.
He reportedly only left home to purchase a soda and was to return home, but never did.
“Oh the pain,” Nicoya Penn lamented.
Thirty-eight-year-old Cieon Davis, also known as “Bolo”, was shot multiple times about the body on the island around 7pm. His body was found lying on the side of the street.
His sister was seen wailing near his body in the street, before emergency personnel arrived.
Niece Oshawnte Walker cried, “My want my uncle. I want him back home now.”
Unlike New Providence, this is the first homicide for the island which remains relatively crime-free. Dundas Town which is populated, is in Marsh Harbour, Central Abaco.
A national day of prayer was held in Nassau and Abaco on Monday, called by the Prime Minister Philip Davis, in hopes to bring comfort to victims of crime after an alarming and spiraling rate of homicides since the beginning of the year.
Mark Handwerker who lives on the island begged, “Oh that’s enough people. [It’s] bad enough [that] it’s common in Nassau. We don’t need that here.
“Just stop.”
News reporter on the island Silbert Mills said he knew Davis from a young boy and was surprised since he was the first murder victim for the island.
Dira Diana visited the settlement and knew it to be tranquil. “It’s sad. just visited there and it was so peaceful and calm.”
“What the hell is going on in our land Abaco?” Angenell Gray questioned.
