Bike crash victim dies

(CNS): A 28-year-old man involved in a motorcycle collision in West Bay on Friday evening has died just after police announced that they believed he was connected with an armed robbery at a liquor store in the district. The local man, who has not yet been named by police, was said to have lost his fight for life around lunchtime on Monday. The man came off the motorbike on Jefferson Road at around 10:30pm on Friday night, some 40 minutes after the stick-up at Joe-Ena’s liquor store in West Church Street but it is not known how the crash occurred. Police however did state that he may have been the armed, masked man who entered the store demanding cash at around 9:50pm.

Police investigating the link and the circumstances of the crash that killed the man are asking anyone with information on the crash or the robbery to contact the West Bay Police Station at 949-3999, the RCIPS’ tip-line on 949-7777 or Crime Stoppers on 800-8477 (tips)