Bahamas: Family left confused over why police killed relative
Fredia Major said yesterday that it took her family more than eight hours to confirm that her brother kills in a police-involved shooting on Boxing Day.
Her brother was a 31-year-old Azario Major.
“My dad called me like one o’clock,” Major said when asked how she found out about her brother’s death.
“I wasn’t feeling too good, and I was sleeping the whole day. He had called me like one o’clock or 12:40 in the morning. I didn’t answer because I was sleeping and he called my boyfriend.
“He told me that the police came by the house and said my brother was in an incident … but they wouldn’t tell him if he were in custody or whether he was shot or anything.
“They wouldn’t give him any information. That’s when I found out that something had happened.”
She said her family went to multiple police stations and the Central Detective Unit to get information on what had happened but were unsuccessful.
Major said she went on Facebook and saw a post about a shooting in the area of Fire Trail Road.
“That’s not far from where we live, so we were able to narrow it down from that situation,” she said.
“That’s probably the only place he would have been because he didn’t like to go out that much.”
According to police, three off-duty officers at a business on Fire Trail Road spoke to a man who was “acting in a disorderly manner”.
The man left the establishment and returned. Police said he then went and produced two more times. The officers noticed the man had a gun the third time, police said.
The officers, who were in fear for their lives, shot the man, killing him, police said.
Major said the entire situation has been confusing and upsetting for her family.
“We knew what my brother was dealing with for the past couple of years,” she said.
“He was inside the house. He wasn’t going many places. He just started going out more within the last couple of weeks. So, as far as we know, it’s out of character. Anyone who knows him knows that it’s out of character.”
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