Bajan businessman succumbs to gunshot injury

Colin Forde

(Barbados Nation) Police are now investigating the murder of Colin Forde of 10th Avenue, New Orleans, St Michael.

Colin Forde
Colin Forde

Sometime after 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Forde was sitting outside his business place, Colin’s Sports Bar and Lounge, at Baxter’s Road, St Michael, when he was accosted and shot at by two unknown assailants.

He was wounded and taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injury.

It is believed the two assailants ran in the area of the playing field at Passage Road.