Man wounded in The Strand plaza shooting
(CNS): A 31-year-old man from George Town was seriously wounded early Saturday morning during a shooting at The Strand entertainment complex off the West Bay Road. According to reports made to the police, several shots were fired at around 3:30am.
The victim was taken by private car to the hospital, where he was treated for gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg. The area off Canal Point Road, the location of several late-night bars and clubs, is becoming notorious for violence.
Police have not indicated the motive for the shooting, though it is understood to be gang-related with potential connections to last year’s murders in two mass shootings in George Town that remain unsolved.
One man was charged in connection with the killings at Vic’s Bar but the charges were dropped, and no charges have been brought for the killings in Martin Lane that happened a week earlier.
Detectives investigating this incident are asking anyone with information or who may have seen what happened around the time of the shooting are urged to call the George Town Police Station at 949-4222.
Anonymous tips can be provided directly to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or via the website.
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None of this has anything to do with a night club or clubs. This is all about parenting. Parents know when their kid is a gangster.
Things deteriorate to this level because there is no policing and thus no repercussions.
The same is true for so many things that we notice have gotten worse and worse here over the last few years –
Higher and higher numbers of car accidents (because there is no policing whatsoever of dangerous driving, drink driving, speeding etc).
More violent crime (because there is no policing of drugs, weapons, assaults that take place).
The pattern goes on. Perhaps Lillie’s could do more, no one denies that, but seeing as half of the drama that goes on in the parking lot is by people who are not even patrons, perhaps the police at some point could do some policing!
Gee, I’m sorry, but I didn’t read this until it was a couple of days old.
A lot of this is really code for no black people. Which isn’t right. I don’t want some $6 security guard to have an excuse to keep me out of a place I want to go and there is almost always something in a dress code that can be used to justify that.
There are issues of violence in some communities and as other posters point out the violence will just change locations if a club is closed.
The underlying issue is two-fold:
1. Problems in the public school system
2. Acceptance of unacceptable behaviour by a lot of people in Cayman. There are gangs and drugs and people need to keep their family members out of it for at least 20 years before this gets any better.
There is no easy fix. I don’t have the energy to write about the schools…
A police officer needs to be stationed outside every night there is an event in the Strand and the bars need to cover the expense for this.
OR, shut down the bars in the Strand!
If you are going to cater to low-lifes (with cheap booze), expect this sort of occurrence to happen often. Increase the prices and drive the rift raft out…
Seriously, one stray bullet on an American tourist, say goodbye to tourism.
CI Government needs to stamp this out immediately.
where is the cheap booze?
Have you been to Tillies and ordered 4 shots of tequila? Please try and brace yourself for the bill. By comparison, the Strand is cheap cheap.
It would be pretty easy for the police to raid the parking lot on a Friday night and search everyone and every vehicle. I’m sure they would find lots of weapons, drugs, and who knows what else. Put them all in jail and repeat every weekend until they round up all of the gangster wanna be trouble makers. Continuing to ignore the problem is not the solution. All laws need to be enforced 24/7/365.
I remember the police used to do walk throughs in all the clubs. Why did this stop?
Those saying it’s not the job of the bar to police the Peking lot don’t realize that the bar owns the parking lot via the STRATA!!! That’s their property and their responsibility!!!!
1000% incorrect.
Why do our elected officials turn a blind eye to this mayhem???? How many people need to be hurt or killed for it to make a matter??? If it were white people being shot, Lord knows this bar would have been closed long ago!!
These are the ones who wote for certain politicians.
excuse the political incorrectness but these are facts:
when lillies opened it was caymans best ever nightclub…it had strict door policy and dress code…. and it was mainly full of expats and respectable locals
then things started slipping on door policy and the locals low-lifes infiltrated the place….things got seedier and seedier. expats stopped going and you eventually you end up with what you have now…. a ghetto club with ghetto issues being resolved in the car park.
People always say just shut down that bar/club… the following bars/clubs were shutdown due to violence:
Matrix
L.I.
Button Wood
Next Level
Elements
Jet/Dream/Fete
Nectar
Feel free to add to the list above if I missed any!
Most of these places did the obvious suggestions…. higher cover charge, enforced dresscode, good security cameras, greater police present, lighting up the parking lot (all which the strand has done over the last two/three years)
but it still happens and its actually NOT the business owners or the polices fault… as humans we will always settle disagreements with violence especially when liquor is involved.
Truth is most of our violent crime in Cayman especially around bars/clubs are minimal and targeted… if you not in shit, shit most likely wont happen to you… dont stress your pretty little self, just try so count yah blessings.
Hope the brudda who got shot makes a full recovery!
Maybe if you get caught with a stray bullet outside one of these beloved clubs while you’re just minding your own business your tone will change.
As tourists , we won’t go to any nightclubs on the island any more. We have read of too much violence in the past few years at them. We used to go to a lot of them and spend the night dancing, drinking and spending plenty of $$$$. Now, we go to a dinner, have a drink or two and just go back to the hotel. It is boring, but we don’t want to take any chances of getting mixed up with any of the madness that seems to be happening after midnight (or before) at these places. It used to be a good night out.
more likely they were shut down due to not making money.
I remember the police used to do walk throughs in all the clubs. Why did this stop?
Martin drive bar closed down
Globe bar after Mark death
It never happens in the bars it’s outside as all the trouble makers hang out drinking out of their cars and play music deal drugs etc.
Make it illegal to have an open container outside and put a chain across the fire lane if there’s a fire the fire service will cut it in seconds.
Put up cameras but have screens at all the entrances to the bars so you can see your being recorded.
Oh and maybe tell the police about all the dealers and trouble makers instead of pretending you didn’t see anything
I guess you missed the news last year when someone literally ran INSIDE Vics and sprayed it down???
At the end of the day bullets don’t care who or what is on the other end of where they’re being fired from either way, whether you’re outside or inside.
Genius, it’s already illegal to have an open container in your car…Police should be there every Friday pay day. DCI should suspend the liquor licenses and T&BL until landlord installs CCTV and better lighting everywhere. They just spent however many hundreds of thousands repaving their carpark and didn’t install lights or cameras.
Police used to patrol club and bar parking lots, particularly at closing. Now they don’t. It made a difference on all three islands.
Did I say in the car no I said outside genius
LONG LIVE Elements!!! Who misses late night EDM in a fun and safe environment.
Now we have to choose. So tired of this crap.
Going out to a safe and respectable night club requires one to leave island. Sad times.
Shut down that violent shitehole. The owners can’t offer a safe environmental so shut it down. How many more beatings, stabbings or shootings will it take?
It isnt the venue owners, it’s the few people that actually cause the problems…
shut down the carpark?
owners?…they are all tenants or are you blaming the owner of the strand?
how about blaming the people involved or who accept and promote gangster culture on these islands?
The strand is a STRATA. Each unit is owned by an individual. The nightclubs own their space. Through the strata they own the parking lot as space in common. Hence they are responsible for the actions of their patrons in the communal areas of the property.
Just have a $20 cover charge and play only EDM music that will deter 2PAC and WuTang from playing gangsta at the Strand.
Savages
what do you expect when some of the establishments welcome and cater to the ghetto culture…?
basic rules should be:
no loitering
no sunglasses
no chains,
no sports clothes/shoes
no caps
no guns?
NO ******S
Why not call the police with this instead of posting it in the comments?
Who is reacting with a smiley face to this article?!
Maybe the ones running around freely again with the weaponry.
The fully vaccinated
Check the cctv camera at 7-Mile Shops outside The Bird around midnight. Hear someone brandishing a gun outside…
Probably not a clean picture due to insufficient lighting.
LOL expat bars don’t have guns, gangs or late night violence
SHUT DOWN LILLIES AND CASA
Position some police cars along there every night.
… And expect what to happen?
Fewer shootings. What is wrong with your brain?
Oh you think so. LOL
When will the landlord’s learn or the tenants demand that the parking lot areas be properly lit at from 11pm until at least an hour after nightclub closing?
nothing to do with lighting…that is one of the most prominent locations in wb road.
the cleintelle that some of these establishments cater too is the problem.
The “clientelle” will react differently in bright light. Try it.
When they’re sued
Switch the music to country and gangster idiots will scamper like rats. Problem solved.
Tell that to owner of country and western bar who got his place trashed!
If the government really wants to reduce gun deaths, they should enact the death penalty for possession of an illegal firearm. You don’t believe it will? Try it and see!
There is actually no indication that a punishment like the death penalty reduces crime.
It also does not reduce the load on the prison system.
It is a social problem that needs to be dealt with from school children and giving opportunities to all levels of society.
https://deathpenalty.procon.org/questions/does-the-death-penalty-deter-crime/
This may seem trite but the person who has been executed will not be able to commit any more crimes. In effect it may reduce future crimes especially in a small community where gun violence or threats of such are from a minority of persons
100 percent correct! No gun-carrying killers that were executed have ever killed anyone else .
So one car is chasing another car with intent to do the occupants of the first car harm.
The first car pulls into a well lit parking lot with many people around in hopes the second car will not follow, but it does.
Occupants of the second car take shots a the occupants of the first car and then they both exit the parking lot.
How does this have anything to do with the businesses at The Strand?
Well lit? Not by my definition.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes,
Way to go guys.
Close those joints down now. They only harbor low lifes.
2:50 Doesn’t work. The low lives will migrate somewhere else. This always happens. Fix the problem at the source. Lock up these wanna-be gangsters.
Same ones running around again!
Inspector Clouseau would do a better job than the RCIP!!
Notoriously poor policing with no cameras installed to date, and I’m sure no visibility or one drug/weapon raid conducted at the premises.
Only wannabe gangsters hang out there
Close down Lillie’s!!
All those bars should have planning mandated security cameras , inside and outside showing the car park area.
Liquor license renewal should be subject to proof that the installation is working.
As witnesses always “see nothing” , police need all the help they can get.
Liquor Licensing board more worried about playing music on Sundays. So they penalize the Caymanian lawful owners whilst the Jamaicans & Hispanics carry on with their music as our laws don’t apply to them.
99% this was Caymanian on Caymanian bobo
Hondurans and Jamacians
14 @ 2:36 pm – Liquor licensing renewals should be contingent on maintaining a peaceful place of business and surroundings. Some places have had too much violence in and around them to still have a liquor license!!
It used to be that way; way back when there were regular police patrols around and in bars and pubs. Way back then in the olden days, repeat offenders lost their Music and Dance Licence.
That was before politicians were dependent on the Jamaican voters.
During the club open hours, make payment to parking lot mandatory. If you go into the club you get parking validated. When you go into the club go through metal detector. The guys hanging outside won’t stay there as they too cheap. Paint double lines on road to remove street parking, and have police patrolling for vehicles on the road. Won’t completely rid you of punks, as the ghetto life music promotes this. As a past night club owner in Canada that had an image issue, we made the choice of removing hip hop and r and b music. At the beginning, killed our product, but we were able to change clientele to have a busy and more profitable product in the end
You think people that are shooting guns. Cant afford a car ? Are you really that unintelligent. The real jokers are the ones that liked your comment. Either way Im located on MARTIN LANE in Georgetown come there MIDNIGHT if anyone disagrees with this post. RIP MARK ANDRE EBANKS