A 34-year-old man was shot and killed at a roadside breakfast takeaway on Horseshoe Drive off Farrington Road yesterday morning.

Superintendent B.K. Bonamy said while at Rosie’s breakfast van around 8 a.m., the victim, identified as Jamaal Huyler, was accosted by two men, who shot him and then drove off in a green SUV. Huyler was reportedly shot in the head.

According to Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) President Bernard Evans, Huyler worked for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) in the fleet management department and was with the company for over eight years.

“Jamaal was a very, very good worker in our fleet management department at Perpall Tract and it’s

just sad, it’s just very sad this morning,” Evans said.

“This is just senseless. I think this country needs a wake up call. At some point a truce has to be called.

“I know they say it takes a village to raise a child and that [has to] be true, but it doesn’t make sense that you raise your child in a manner they should go, and I raise my child like I don’t care. It’s just a sad, sad day.”

Evans said Huyler visited the breakfast van every morning, often ordering the same thing. He added that the entire BTC family is currently distraught as Huyler and his mother Brenda are employees of the company.

This murder brings the count to 92 for the year.

“I think it’s sad it’s [only] August and we are on murder count 92. But what’s even worse is you can’t go to a breakfast stand and have breakfast before you go to work,” said Families Of All Murder Victims (FOAM) founder Khandi Gibson.

“It’s sad the way the country is headed.

“We need to band together now more than ever.

“We have become so passive when someone is murdered.”

Gibson, who lost two brothers to violent crime, compared the lack of regard for someone who is murdered, to someone driving over a cat or dog in the street. She urged members of the public to come together and take a stand against violence and murder in the country.

“It’s enough business as usual,” Gibson said.

“I feel like when someone gets murdered, instead of [everyone] going to work, let us all go to Bay Street, and let the people in power and let the churches all come together.

“We could all march for the number man, we could march and say no to gambling. Why we can’t march and say murder is out of whack?

“We don’t know who could be the next murder victim.

“It could be my child, it could be your child. Let us take a stand, [because] this is just sad.”

Gibson said families being unable to access psychological help and retaliating to avenge their loved ones are huge concerns.

“My biggest fear after a murder is how the family is going to react because the government has nothing in place for grieving families who have anger in them, who are bitter and who want to retaliate,” Gibson said.

She further recommended either a 24- or 48-hour period of care where the government can help the families of murdered victims as they go through their initial grieving process.

Bonamy said the police have no motive or suspects in Huyler’s murder and are appealing to the public for assistance.