MARIGOT/PHILIPSBURG:--- Gendarmes and Detectives from KPSM are busy investigating the shooting death of a 20 year old woman who died around midday at the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital on Tuesday. Captain of the Gendarmerie Sylvain Jouault said that the investigators have no clue as to where exactly the shooting took place. Jouault said that at the moment all they know is that the 20 year old was taken to the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital with gunshot wounds and she later died.
Public Prosecutor Tineke Kamps and Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson said they were informed by the French authorities about the death of the young woman and they are now trying to investigate.
SMN News learnt that the young woman who was identified as Deyanida Faneyte better known as Clarrisa from the Dominican Republic and resident of Dutch Quarter was shot multiple times while she was sitting in a car. A source who knows the victim said the assailants were firing shots at the young woman's boyfriend. It is understood that the young man had some kind of dispute with another man who began firing shots at the couple who was seated in a car. The source further stated that the shooting took place in the Dutch Quarter area but for some reason the boyfriend decided to take her to the French side hospital for treatment.
SMN News further learnt that the victim's boyfriend was not injured however his girlfriend received multiple gunshot wounds. The source said that the gendarmes already questioned the boyfriend as a witness in the fatal shooting.