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Hotelier And Wife Targeted By Home Invasion Gunmen

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BASSETERRE,St. Kitts (Thursday 8th November 2018)- A well-known Nevisian hotelier is currently nursing a gunshot wounds after an encounter

Police have taken four persons into custody to assist with investigations into an armed robbery in Nevis in which a businessman was shot and injured.

Preliminary investigations so far have revealed that at about 1:45 a.m. on November 08, 2018, two armed, masked individuals entered the home of John Yearwood in the Jones Estate area. Yearwood shot both intruders, and received a gunshot wound to the leg from one of them. Police understand that the assailants escaped the scene with a sum of cash using Yearwood’s motor pick up.

Yearwood was transported to the Alexandra Hospital where he is listed as being in a stable condition. The vehicle was later recovered by Police in the Mount Nevis area.

 

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