At around 6.57 am today (November 01st) the Royal Turks and Caicos Police Force received information from its Police Control Room, that two adults – male and female, along with two children were bleeding heavily from gunshot wounds in a parked vehicle in Dock Yard.
RTCIPF officers arrived at the given location and found the lifeless bodies of the adults and a male child aged three. Another female child aged seven, who was also in the vehicle, was alive and taken for medical attention for injuries received.
Commissioner of Police Trevor Botting in expressing condolences to the families of the deceased said: “The murder of the two adults and the child is shocking and the circumstances of what happened are now part of an active investigation. Such a vicious, barbaric act has no place in our communities and I condemn those involved. The criminals involved are in the minority and we need to all work together to bring them to justice; these criminals are heartless; they do not care about life.
“The RTCIPF remains focused and determined to bring the perpetrators to justice and we are being supported by colleagues from the UK, Bahamas, and the United States as we conduct robust and thorough investigations into recent violence on the Islands.
“Operations will continue to track down those criminals causing most harm to our communities and they should be prepared to spend most of their life in prison when they are caught”
The public is being advised to notify the closest police station or 911 and give any information of illegal activity anonymously.