A woman was shot inside her Yellow Elder Gardens home yesterday morning; she died a short while later, becoming the fifth person murdered in the country since Saturday, police said.
Relatives identified her as Leoneise Jones, 24.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said the shooter approached the home on Old Cedar Street around 2 a.m. and shot through a window, hitting the woman in the neck and face.
According to police, she died in hospital.
Ferguson appealed to anyone with information on the matter to contact police.
He said police did not have a motive or a suspect.
When The Guardian visited the home yesterday, relatives did not want to speak.
Jones' neighbors, who said they were shocked by the incident, described her as a quiet and kind young woman.
"She never came out and she never hurt anyone," one neighbor said.
On Jones' Facebook page, a friend posted, "If I had known Saturday would have been the last time I saw you, I would have snapped a few more pictures."
The murder count for the year now stands at 28.
On Saturday, a man was stabbed to death outside a home at Graham Drive, Yellow Elder Gardens, at 3 p.m., police said.
Alexis Smith, 15, was shot to death outside a bar in Kings Subdivision, Eight Mile Rock, around 3:06 a.m. on Sunday, police said.
On Monday, police said two men were murdered on Grand Bahama.
Lenardo Pierre, 22, was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Adventurers Way around 1:45 a.m.
The second victim was shot on Weddell Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., police said.
The crime problem remains a great national concern despite efforts by the government and police to address it.
On Friday, Prime Minister Perry Christie renewed his commitment to "smother and suffocate" crime.
In a recent interview with The Nassau Guardian, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade said all categories of violent crime with the exception of murder have trended downward up to March 19.
He called murder a vexing issue that the police with the assistance of all stakeholders "have to get a handle on".
During an open house and exhibition at the Government Printing Department on Old Trail Road, Christie said the government will dedicate more resources to law enforcement and social intervention programs.
"I am continuing to dedicate resources to the police force because I intend to smother, to smother and suffocate this," the prime minister said.

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