As we said, it is truly stunning, and a sign of a one more disturbing sea change in an already deadly crime climate. Today at a press conference to announce a cabinet shuffle designed to deal with that crime climate, the Prime Minister discussed his friend's plight. He opened up by saying thanks.
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"Of course I would like to start by asking all of you to pray for my law partner Mr. Rodwell Williams.I also want to - I have not been authorized to do this - thank the doctors who struggled all of last night to save his life. They did a wonderful job and those heroic efforts continue through the present time. The hope is that he can be taken abroad if he can sufficiently stabilize. They have been very serious internal injuries and it really is touch and go. Anybody who knows Rodwell will know what absolute wonderful human being he is. I am sure that I do not ask in vain when I ask that you all pray for him. I will simply say that the police have some persons of interest to whom they are speaking and it is my hope that they can quickly get to the bottom what is on the face of it so brazen and brutal and vicious. I hope that very soon the police will be able to tell us not only who did it but why. There has been no better friend to me, no more self sacrificing individual that I know. It has hit me hard, but I pray to God that he will make it."
The Prime Minister also discussed the circumstances of the attack on his law partner. It has to be placed in the context of April 15th, 2010 6 weeks ago when before 8 in the morning, a projectile was launched through the second floor window of the Barrow and Williams firm. No one was hurt and the nature of the projectile was not confirmed, but it was widely believed to be a bullet that smashed two windows of the firm's library. Was that related to last night's attack? Today the prime minister would only say that Williams was not robbed.
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"In the circumstances it doesn't appear that it was a robbery attempt, nothing was taken. So I really am reluctant to speculate too much but certainly it does not appear that robbery was the motive. There was a security that was hired, that person was unarmed. I don't know if it would have made any difference if he had been armed. As I understand it the two attackers held them up and searched the security guard to make sure that he wasn't armed and then simply shot Mr. Williams."
Two persons of interest have been detained; they are reportedly from the general area. Those comments were made at a previously planned press conference to announce the first cabinet shuffle of this UDP administration. We'll have the full details on that in our second segment.
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