Police intend to file charges today against a man suspected of killing Joel Joseph, who was reportedly stabbed during a fight with another man last Friday.  "He should be going to court tomorrow; he is being charged," said Superintendent Stephen Dean yesterday, referring to a man who has been assisting police in their investigation since Joseph was killed.

Joseph, 31, of Golden Gates, was stabbed during an altercation at Mermaid Boulevard near Carmichael Road around 4 a.m. on December 16.  Dean declined to divulge details about what the two men were arguing about before the altercation became violent.  That same day another man was killed - Tyson Deveaux, 24, of Saffron Street - by a gunman who shot him as he walked west on Bahama Avenue around 8 a.m.

Yesterday Dean said police had no suspects in custody nor any leads in Deveaux's murder.
"Nothing on that yet. We're still following several lines of inquiry. We've not been able to identify any suspect as yet; I don't know the motive. We're still following several lines of inquiry," he said.  Deveaux was cleared of gun possession charges last November.  On June 14, 2010, he and another man were shot while at a car wash in Pinewood Gardens.

In other crime news, a man was shot to the hand by an armed thug who approached him as he walked near the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre.  The victim, a 24-year-old resident of Dun Street in Chippingham, told police he was approached by two men as he walked in the area around 7 p.m. on Friday.

One of the men, who was allegedly armed with a handgun, shot the victim in his hand.  Police are also investigating a shooting incident that left a male of Dunmore Street, Chippingham in hospital.  At last report the victim is in hospital in stable condition.  Police on Abaco are also investigating the country's latest traffic fatality.  A 20-year-old man died after he crashed his car into a wall while driving along Don Mckay Boulevard in Abaco, police said.

It is suspected that the unidentified victim lost control of the red Nissan Tiida he was driving and collided into a wall around 3 a.m. yesterday.  The force of the crash ejected the victim from the car, police added.  The driver was pronounced dead at the scene by a local doctor.  Sergeant Chrislyn Skippings said it was too early to tell if alcohol was a factor in the crash.  "I can't say if he was drunk," she said yesterday.

His death marks the second traffic fatality on Abaco this year, said Sgt. Skippings.  In late October, a 37-year-old resident of Crockett Drive in Marsh Harbour was killed on an Abaco highway.  The unidentified victim was driving a 2006 green Nissan Titan truck south along S.C. Bootle Highway when his car spun out of control and hit a tree, police said.  He was pronounced dead at the scene while a second man, who has minor injuries, was treated and released from a local clinic.

Police investigations into these incidents continue.

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