A gunman shot a woman in the lower body as she exited a vehicle in the parking lot of the Fourth Terrace Diagnostic Center early yesterday, police said. Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson told The Nassau Guardian the woman was in stable condition in hospital. The woman, who is said to be an employee of the diagnostic center, was preparing to open the establishment at about 8 a.m. as she had done many times before, according to one of her colleagues, who did not want to be named. Ferguson said police had no leads in this case. Police are asking anyone with information about this matter to contact them. Several females were victims of violent crimes this year. The most gruesome was the April murder of Nellie Brown-Cox who was hacked to death with a cutlass. She was the seventh female murder victim for the year. Last week, a 24-year-old mother became Grand Bahama's fifth homicide victim for 2011.  Police said she was shot in the head on Saturday night. Recently, a woman was shot twice in the legs in an area off Carmichael Road, according to police.. In March, 14-year-old R. M. Bailey High School student Jeffonya Rolle was shot to death in front of her family's home in Garden Hills. Elex Tina McKenzie was found duct-taped and discarded in plastic on the side of the road in Sea Breeze earlier this year. And 31-year-old Carrol Jean Jacques was shot to death on Bacardi Road on March 30. In February, 61-year-old Yvonne Adderly was found in a home in Abaco with injuries to her head. In Abaco, two murders have been recorded for the year. In January, a 37-year-old mother and school teacher was shot multiple times in the head while at a gas station on Wulff Road, and in horrific style 26-year-old Indera Barry was shot in the head and left at a dump site off Faith Avenue. The most deadly month this year so far has been March with 16 murders recorded. The highest number of murders recorded in any one month in 2010 was 11.

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