The police have charged a man from Portsmouth with the shooting death of another on New Year’s Day.
Haywood Augustine, 36, of Sandwich Street in Portsmouth was charged with murder in the death of Derek Peters of the same address.
Peters died from a gunshot in the back of the neck in the first homicide case in Dominica for 2018.
Police PRO, Inspector Pellam Jno Baptiste said the police have concluded their investigations into the incident and Augustine was charged with murder on January 4, 2018.
He was taken to a Magistrate’s Court where the charge was read to him.
He was remanded in custody at the Dominica State Prison.
What a way to start your year.
Thought he was defending himself. You live by the gun you die by the gun.
Someone needs to explain to me how several armed ‘pretend gangsters’ can attack my home occupied by me and my family and I end up being the one charged?
Better charged than dead.
At times you ignorant fools don’t understand Law and just come on here chatting garbage..For lack of knowledge the people perish..So because someone try to rob you,this give you the right to use some illegal firearm to kill them..Tell me what the law should do if not charge this man?
They should congratulate him for protecting both himself and his mother and not allowing his family to fall victim to a violent home invasion. Those who were there saw what happened and we’re powerless to do anything other than call the authorities. If restraint hadn’t been shown maybe there would be 2 more bodies lying in the man’s yard.
@Civil servant
A man’s home is his castle. I am king and protector of my castle. If you unlawfully enter my castle, I retain the right to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner of your fate. So let it be written. So let it be done.
You can’t have your cake and eat it; you want to rob, expect to get shot, period!!!
so what he’s going to be out in a couple of years, no death penalty in this country…
Good work by the police. I just hope that you have an airtight case against the perpetrator. We have to rid the streets of these hoodlums. Again, congratulations to the police for superb investigative work.
Rip derick u will be surely missed