The Royal Bahamas Police Force has released its 2012 statistics on murder, documenting 111 murders of which 74% were solved and 26%(29 murders) remain unsolved. Of those killed the majority (63%) were between ages 18 and 35 and 91% were male. 26% of those killed were between ages 36 – 55.
The figures also revealed that in 2012, guns was the weapons of choice, with 87 people (79%) dying by the bullet. 10% of the homicides involved the use of a knife and 5% blunt objects.
Conflict and Retaliation were the motives behind 70 of the murders, with Robbery as the motive for 17.
