Shooting incident in Wesley area

breaking newsDominica News Online has been informed that a man was shot by the police somewhere between Palm Tree and Wesley.

Details are sketchy at this time, but but DNO understands the incident occurred after 7:00 am on Thursday.

A source said the man had been threatening the police with a cutlass.

He was taken to the Marigot Hospital and may be transferred to the Princess Margaret Hospital, the source said.

DNO is following this incident and will provide updates when they become available.

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97 Comments

  1. concern
    November 15, 2013

    Well Wesley people should be happy every one talking about their villa
    ge.

  2. police too
    November 15, 2013

    all you that talking negativity, just pray that you all don’t end up in that situation, because you wont like the outcome….. please educate your self about the law before you all speak

  3. abroad
    November 15, 2013

    I think one of the reasons we got so many wrongs in things going on in this country like the police shooting a man with a cutlass to have him in critical condition in the hospital, and a man coming after a police officer with a cutlass is because we hide the truth to much and are afraid to speak out against wrong. The young man who stated that palm tree is in wesley, and a lot of killing’s always happening in wesley is right.The one who said Dominica is becoming a crime It’s sad but they are right , check out the figures. You all have no right to criticize them for thier comments to go as far as even sounding threatening. someone needs to track down your IP adress and come arrest you all cause you are the ones who cause problems in this country

  4. Rastafari mesay
    November 15, 2013

    Babylon ah bring guns to a sword fight

  5. james
    November 15, 2013

    People need to carry guns legal to help the police . Too many criminals are armed.

  6. November 14, 2013

    I really cant understand that is this man mentally ill?, did both of them hard a problem? was he a treats to the police or anyone else? did he attract the police? or he just had his cutlass in his hand which this is normal in Dominica even the little kids u can see them with their cutlass comining from the bushes I can say anything yet I am just listening

  7. FAST N FURIOUS
    November 14, 2013

    He lucky.If it was in the US he is a dead man.Attacking the police with a cutlass.He would have gotten multiple shots not one.

    • nurse
      November 18, 2013

      He did get more than one. And y u think he should be dead he didn’t attack the police officer. Get the fact before u make such comment

  8. "O" STRESS"
    November 14, 2013

    Who in the kitchen feeling the heat. When all the facts and circumstances comes out if it turns out that the victim did in fact threatened the police and was armed wit a cutlass I am not condoning what the police did, but his / her action may appear justified. A person,s state of mind at the time is paramount to the action that follows when they are facing an immediate threat. Sometimes I wonder how some of our brothers and sisters reasoning on matters leaves much to be desired.

  9. Mr wesley
    November 14, 2013

    all we need in this little country call dominica is Jesus.

    • ReSpect
      November 15, 2013

      Aha, and meanwhile we should sit and pray for a change? If the Allmighty is in all of his creatures …. don´t you think WE should do the job?

  10. Shameless
    November 14, 2013

    Law and order must be maintained at all cost. You cannot assault or greaten the police with a cutlass and expect them to give you a hug and kiss in return. To those who say the victim have mental problems; does that mean the officer should have allowed him to harshly him because he is footing? Come on folks, anyone one of us being confronted with a cutlass wielding psycho would protect ourselves by any means necessary. Good job officers and stay the course. But Change Must Come and that includes in Wesley.

    Assertive, NOT Agressive!

    • overseas
      November 14, 2013

      well said

    • anonymous5
      November 15, 2013

      When you do not know anything, please keep quiet! the victim is NOT mentally unstable….NO doctor has EVER diagnosed him with any mental issues… he has an anger problem I will admit and I found it rather foolish on his part to confront the police with a cutlass…However, did the police follow protocol as to at what point you shoot a civilian? why wasn’t a warning shot fired? and why or why was he shot in an area very critical to his survival and not in his leg, which would surely have justified the claim of “self defense”… just imagine that this was your brother or son or cousin…am sure that “psycho” statement would be non existent on your part!

    • ReSpect
      November 15, 2013

      totally agree!

  11. get off wesley
    November 14, 2013

    On the map an for all good thing plam tree stads alone why is the negative wesley name have to be call,we are working to bring our community to the top off dominica

    • stupes
      November 15, 2013

      Stupessssss… palm Tree, Wesley, Woodfordhill is all part of our small community called DOMINICA…so despite of where it happens we should all take responsibility, its OUR country…and by the way as far as I heard there is NO unsolved murder in Palm Tree as opposed to the nine or more in Wesley…solving these murders should be your top priority in “bringing your community to the top”

  12. tatiana
    November 14, 2013

    I do hope n pray that the Victim is alright n will be well; not sure what’s the situation with his life; heard its life or death

    May God breathe some fresh air upon him n restore him to wholeness

  13. Concerned Dominican
    November 14, 2013

    The young man is not from Wesley He is from palm tree which is close to Woodfordhill beach which is close to Woodfordhill and not Wesley. the young man did not even attend school in Wesley the children from Palm Tree all go to school in Woodfordhill but for what its worth our people too like to beat up on our police. The man had to defend himself. you people beat down the police with their mouth but anything happen they call police first. so what the police was supposed to stay there and let the man hache him? I wonder how many of you civilians would have a gun and not fire it on a man who is attacking you with a cutlass.Hmmmmmmmmmmm

    • BEB
      November 14, 2013

      Palm Tree is mid way between Wesley and Woodford-Hill, what difference does it make?

      • dog bite
        November 14, 2013

        It dose make a difference, that’s why it’s called palm tree.

    • concern
      November 14, 2013

      way papa like Wesley is so innocent to crime. Palm tree is closer to Wesley than to woodfordhill .remember all those shooting that happen recently from where? Wesley leave Woodford hill out of it.

    • Urgh!
      November 15, 2013

      Why the heck is the issue about where he is from?… and be real, i’d rather be from Palm tree a thousand times more than Wesley!

  14. Clever
    November 14, 2013

    Palm tree….first i’m learning that there is a village in dca called Palm Tree.. :(

  15. Neree
    November 14, 2013

    Why? Why? Why? Police shoot man with cutlas. The story is vague,was he mental? That story should be updated. Still trying to understand what happen?????

  16. Wesley nagar
    November 14, 2013

    Is start they start. The one police that had the place under control they send him st Joe. Well ah that dey want. Wesley up again.
    Why they doh look at shit before they f….. Everything up.
    We want our police Back oh gad Wesley done!

    • Wesley nagar
      November 14, 2013

      A you ka thumbs down if ayou want but Wesley me quiet for
      A long time

      • concern
        November 14, 2013

        oh please Wesley is no quiet village. Tell that to people who do not know Wesley and Woodford hill to of a kind

      • November 15, 2013

        @Wesley nagar, did I read you right? Wesley, as I know it, was NEVER QUIET.

    • open mind
      November 14, 2013

      Oh please if that cop was here it would have been a head shot. Thank god he not here

  17. wondering mind
    November 14, 2013

    Let’s assume to police was really threatened or attack. 1. A cutlass vs a gun battle. 2. Y didn’t the police shot him in his hand o foot instead. 3. I am sure the police know he has a mental problem. Let’s be realistic ppl that officer seems to love guns. Officer B u must think b4 u act boy is not a wild pig u going after.

    • Rastafari
      November 14, 2013

      Nowhere in the news story makes mention of what part of his body he was shot. The COP did not go after the dude, the dude threatened the COP with a cutlass, and the COP should shoot the person, period. If you guys have a problem with that, oh well! Shooting someone without just cause is another discussion but based on the story so far, the dude threatened the COP, that’s an offense.

    • say it loud
      November 15, 2013

      Self defense proctecting himself right and simple.

  18. Rastafari
    November 14, 2013

    There are too many ignorant people posting comments without properly reading and comprehending the news article/story. Anyway, the Police have to defend themselves against threats. If some one comes to do bodily harm or verbally states that they are going to harm me, they are going to have to deal with the consequences later. Don’t expect to threaten a COP and get away with it. And what does anything have to do with where the incident took place? does it make a difference what part of the island it happened? Really people?

    • Toi Lit-Bowl
      November 14, 2013

      So, if I understand you correctly – a cop’s life is more important than that of a civilian? If a civilian verbally threatens a cop, the cop has the right to shoot the civilian? Please remember, that a life is very precious and should not be easily put out frivolously.

      • BEB
        November 14, 2013

        I don’t understand u at all,should the police man allow the man with the cutlass to walk up to him and cut off his head when he cant defend himself no more?

      • dog bite
        November 14, 2013

        If his life is important to him he would value it and not go after a police with a cutlass. He get just what he deserved. Very good job who ever the police man is. It’s time that they clean up the mess that’s going on in DOMINICA. Im from wesley, AND YES I SAID IT.

      • what nuh
        November 15, 2013

        Are you really that ridiculously stupid????…. TONEH man!!!!

    • sense
      November 14, 2013

      well lets just say it happen at your home in your bedroom,is that ok with you.

  19. Turth Telling
    November 14, 2013

    All you Dominicans too damn stupid and ignorant. For god sake someone got shot, the officer life was threatened and all you guys talking about is where Palm tree is located. Who gives a flying color where its located. No one is even concern about the victim as to whether he is ok, or what were the circumstances. Wesley, Palm Tree or Woodford Hill who the hell cares. Pray for the victim.

  20. Lovely
    November 14, 2013

    things are really bad.. no one talks to settle differences

  21. ange
    November 14, 2013

    Is de pm that put de gun in the police hand or the cutlass in de man hand .? The police have a job to do so let them do there job is about time police get respected in dominica, and live government and the pm out, from things like that ,,,,!!!!!

    • sense
      November 14, 2013

      wait till its some one close to you then we can make sense of what you saying.

  22. anony mouse
    November 14, 2013

    Alas papa. Dominica is a little dot on the map. Wesley, Wesley Area, Northeastern area, Palm tree, woodfordhill area. Same if you ask me. In that speck of a dot who cares. The country rampant with crimes anyway. And about police shooting people. Police should have been trained how to defend and shoot areas like knees if it boiled down to that.

    • Stealth Critique
      November 14, 2013

      > The country rampant with crimes anyway

      That’s a bit of an exaggeration.

  23. Francisco Telemaque
    November 14, 2013

    I am not getting into it, but as far as I am concerned, Palm Tree can be considered part, and parcel of Wesley, since most of the land in that area are owned by people from Wesley, all the houses around there are owned by people from Wesley.

    As far as I know even my nephew McDonald Destouche owns property there. I don’t see the great issue here, people have been shot, by police in Wesley before. A man from Grand Bay, a former police, shot Enoch in Wesley, We remember old Elford Benjamin, the farther of Dr. Griffin Benjamin, a couple of boys with another woman, well in the days of the Dread, police shot one of his sons.

    Murder, killings take place in Wesley all the time, even a nephew of mine was murdered, his throat slashed!

    I am not condoning these things, but there is a reason for all of this, and unless we can find a way to cause people to become productive, and rid the place of unemployment, and poverty, chances are nor even praying will bring about any change in Dominica for that matter.

    Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

    • True wesley man
      November 14, 2013

      You seem not understand, stay out of wesley people business.

      Wesley just had WATA FEST, three nights of activities. No trouble. NONE!

      You seem to be going senile. Always with your sad history tales.

      • Francisco Telemaque
        November 14, 2013

        “You seem not understand,”

        You see, if your mind was as sharp and alert as mine, you would have known how to write what is in the quote above differently. So you see although I am senile my vocabulary supercedes your own by a million miles! What does fete in Wesley have to do with someone getting shot?

        I can afford to party everyday for the rest of my life if I wish, I do not need any special occasion to party; I have a well stock Bar in my house, anything that money can buy from a liquor store, is in my house, the same can be found in the homes of all of my friends and associates, so what is your point?

        Besides if I need to go out and party there are places in Los Angeles, and Hollywood, where I can go every night and party, if I think that such places are too close to home home I can head out to Palm Springs, or Las Vegas, where the city never sleep and party all day and night, and nobody have to buy me drinks.

        I party on my own pocket you see boy!

        Now you stay out of me business, mind you own business which you do not have!

        Big party in Wesley what; you think I do not know Wesley? Man nothing has changed in Wesley since I left, except for some paved roads, even extending up into the interior, however, life for the people are the same. There are some people I left when I was a kid, each time I return, they are still found dressed the same way as they were when I was a kid, still wearing some old straw hat, their cutlass under arm, bear feet, either in short khaki pants, or dungaree!

        Who do you think you are talking to boy/ girl.

        Who am I talking to anyway?

        People with no name I do not value, since people with no name are considered “nobody!”

        You are insignificant to me.

        I am (Son) fu ma John, Yvonne, and Hector, you see I am not ashamed to identify myself, who are you to suggest I am senile?

        If you were not a fool such a thought would not be written with your fingers; you are an idiot!

        Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

    • Biggie
      November 14, 2013

      your dam !!! nobody ask you bout how much killing Wesley had?? and you even putting your name too?? sort!smfh..

    • no face
      November 14, 2013

      your parrot!! no body ask you bout who hav land there..who business your nephew have land there???!!! you to bosta kaka ..even putting your name too??

    • Truth
      November 14, 2013

      i don’t think you should be writing other people names on here, this is not fb and I dont think those people would be too happy about you calling their full names on here either….#Just saying

    • concern
      November 14, 2013

      in response to your comments about the people who are from Wesley they all attended the Woodford hill school please do you research. that’s where they go to church.

    • Duncekyat
      November 15, 2013

      @Telemakac:

      You should have stopped at “I am not getting into it” and made everybody happy.

  24. Anonymous
    November 14, 2013

    The Officer should reimburse the state for the wasted round.
    An individual in the performance of his duties is accosted with a man threatening him with a cutlass is justified shooting.

    • BEB
      November 14, 2013

      What I’m gathering from u is, the victim should be lying in Lyndhurst Funeral Home or the P.M.H morgue

    • dog bite
      November 14, 2013

      Are you serious? Man you make no damn sense.

    • November 15, 2013

      How is the wasted round reimbursable?

  25. #BeHonest
    November 14, 2013

    I have noticed All the crime is taking place in LABOR constituencies. SMH!

  26. iamrickyjames
    November 14, 2013

    there is a story behind that shooting….. but then again the system we have in place is utter rubbish so that just going to go through thin air..

    • dog bite
      November 14, 2013

      If you know the story please let us hear it.

  27. ti nom
    November 14, 2013

    i have to say this is a good job by the officer, some other police would shoot to kill you if you ever threatened them. at least they shot him in self defence and he is still alive.

    • sense
      November 14, 2013

      when it happen to some one you know and care for then post and say that, only then can your comment be sincere.

  28. Bawi
    November 14, 2013

    alas. help us in DA if is not rape, is kill, now drugs yes i

  29. Anonymous
    November 14, 2013

    sapa wesley say woodforthill

  30. joy
    November 14, 2013

    palm tree is between Wesley and woodfordhill but nearer to Wesley it where gesst estate was. but please let’s wait for the details.

    • afan
      November 14, 2013

      Ras palm and whole of Compton point is part of woodfordhill, the bridge next to NEFA is the boundary between the two villages. But i really eh see what the issue is, where ever it happened it happened, i am from the area and i certainly don’t think that this makes me look bad in any way.

  31. unknown
    November 14, 2013

    Dominicans you all to busy putting politics and politicians before god and prayers that why all those things are happening. You all spoil you all country. Not skerrit give him a break.

  32. open mind
    November 14, 2013

    Is time the police force start to handle criminals and those causing problem. Bravo officers,

    • sense
      November 14, 2013

      is those comment there that does create more problem. What do you think will happen next time, yes the police have to defend him self but he have to answer questions before he get a part on the back. Is not some lion or dragon he shoot. You think that will stop man from committing crime think again this is just breeding ground for worst things not better. Is not police alone that have guns.

  33. November 14, 2013

    Another CUTLASS another GUN. Which one was defending himself? Yeah, the Police took a page from the SELF DEFENSE BOOK. Hmm.

    • qstorm78
      November 14, 2013

      Would you have rather they approach him with a feather?

    • Anonymous
      November 14, 2013

      you need to check the statistic of murders in dominica over the last five years I bet you would find that is cutlass or machetes that was the weapon of choice and check the gbh area and manslaughter then come bac and say y they should not shoot

    • November 15, 2013

      FINALLY, people are reading and listening to the TRUTH. YEAH!!!!!!!

  34. Wesley
    November 14, 2013

    The news said “somewhere between Palm Tree and Wesley”. Learn to read and understand before posting comments. It also said “Details are sketchy at this time.” So don’t crucify the reporter.

  35. Santa Claus
    November 14, 2013

    Q Truth, How all you reading in Dominica nou? Where did DNO say the incident happened in Wesley? Did they not say it happened in the “Wesley area?” FYI, “Wesley area” is just a description of where Palm Tree is. You are from the Wesley area so you know where Palm tree is but most Dominicans would not have had a clue. Furthermore, they did say that it took place BETWEEN WESLEY AND PALM TREE.

  36. Jail-corrupt-leaders
    November 14, 2013

    Why is when a Dominican get a pHD every village claiming them but when it a crime they all want to disassociate themselves people it is the downtrodden in our society who need our help not those ontop?

    • 2 CuTe
      November 14, 2013

      very good observation

  37. Thinking
    November 14, 2013

    Allu just like to put Wesley in all things that bad, WATA FEST past incident free I did not see a comment from DNO complimenting the event.

  38. Anonymous
    November 14, 2013

    geez man allu people make the most insignificant things an issue

  39. Daughter of the soil
    November 14, 2013

    @ truth. where is palm tree, is it not in Wesley. I guess not, palm tree must be a whole new village.

  40. November 14, 2013

    dey don fix it already wi d man wa threatin d police wit cutlas dat another bulllet dat was defendin it self from gettin cut lol wat da comin to

    • pc
      November 14, 2013

      @it could be me. You would no who it what. You was there smh. All you dominicans like to jump to negative conclusion.

      • November 14, 2013

        Some Dominicans really need to go back to school to educate themselves.

    • bigmack
      November 14, 2013

      Enough with the spanish! speak english please.

    • yessa
      November 14, 2013

      is this english?i had to read about 4 times and slowly too,to make sure i understood what was written

      • sense
        November 14, 2013

        you must be from englant you came here to die……

    • investigator
      November 14, 2013

      u have to be a malfete to make a comment so.all u boohoee Dominicans kia go nowhere cuz all u kia keep all u poobell mowt shut.wat all u have to do is take out scareit there.saqway tehbeh

      • yah
        November 14, 2013

        what model kia u selling ?tehbeh you need to head back to school and take a grammar course :mrgreen:

      • More
        November 14, 2013

        lol lol you have me laughing away at this one. I’m guessing is kia sportage :lol: :lol:

    • Wesley nagar
      November 14, 2013

      Police fraid cutlass look joke. Gun and cutlass defend yourself self.which police? Dem police fraid and doh taking no chance, but where the rough police in Wesley mr on vacation again, everytime mr out of state them man have to do that.well if is so allu can quiet them welcome to the wild west.

      • Wesley nagar
        November 14, 2013

        Worst news dey send me padna st Joe me think de man dey states poopa gad

  41. Truth
    November 14, 2013

    Please don’t even mention Wesley area we have enough bad to our name. The place where the incident occurred is Palm tree and the fella that was shot ain”t from Wesley so please put your headline as Palm tree not wesley

    • NYC
      November 14, 2013

      Where is palm tree located? I am from town not that area.

    • Wesley Empress
      November 14, 2013

      DNO said Wesley area, and the last time I check Palm Tree was not the name of a VILLAGE

    • November 14, 2013

      @Truth, they did not say Wesley; they said the “Wesley Area” “between Palm Tree and Wesley”. I do not even know where that is as much as I walked through Wesley. So what if they say “Wesley”? You all like to JUMP on others and want to keep yours QUIET and UNDER COVER.

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