MARIGOT—A French metropolitan woman aged 67 years, resident in St. Martin for several years, was shot dead as she was getting out of her car in the Leader Price car park, Mont Vernon, on Wednesday morning at around 9:30am. Deputy Commandant Emmanuel Maignan confirmed at a press conference in the afternoon that the shooting had the hallmarks of an assassination. The woman was shot in the head with at least two bullets fired.
A man with his head covered with a crash helmet approached the woman from behind and shot her before escaping on either a scooter or a motorbike. Maignan indicated the victim was the mother of the victim found dead in his car on May 10 in Grandes Cayes, Cul-de-Sac. He added a link between the two murders has been established as the modus operandi in both cases was identical.
