PHILIPSBURG:--- The Prosecutor's Office is calling on persons that may have witnessed the shooting that took place in Dutch Quarter last week Tuesday that left 20 year old Deyanida Faneyte dead. Public Prosecutor Tineke Kamps told SMN News that the investigation being conducted both by the French and Dutch side is called Zucchini.
Prosecutor Kamps said that the French authorities conducted an autopsy on Tuesday and it determined that the young woman died from gunshot wounds. Kamps further explained that the Dutch side authorities opened an investigation last Wednesday because they know that the shooting took place in Dutch Quarter but the person who took the victim to the French side hospital for treatment where she died and who was heard as witness on the French side did not tell the investigators exactly where in Dutch Quarter the shooting took place. Therefore, the Prosecutor's Office is calling on persons who may have witnessed the shooting to contact the detective department or call 54-2222 or 911 the hotline and provide the information they may have.
SMN News reported last week that the young woman was taken to the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital by her boyfriend after she was shot by someone with whom he had an argument. A source told SMN News last week that the couple was sitting in a car when the shooting took place.
It should be noted that the boyfriend of the victim is a French citizen. Captain of the Gendarmerie Sylvain Jouault told SMN News that when they interviewed the witness who is the boyfriend of the victim he told them where the shooting took place in Dutch Quarter but they could not say whether or not the information the witness provided is truthful or not.