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Family Speaks: It’s Extremely Frustrating

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Azario Major’s father, Frederick Major is frustrated as he and his family feel justice for his son is being delayed.

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12 months ago

December 5, 2023

Berthony McDermott

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Azario Major’s father, Frederick Major is frustrated as he and his family feel justice for his son is being delayed.

Azario was shot and killed outside Woody’s Bar on Fire Trail Road on December 26th, 2021.

Back in May, the Coroners Court jury ruled that Major’s police-involved killing was a homicide by manslaughter.

Last week, Justice Franklyn Williams granted the officers in the case leave to appeal the Coroner Court’s ruling.

The decision came months after officers filed a constitutional motion to overturn the Coroner’s Court ruling, arguing that pretrial publicity prevented a fair inquest.

The judge said he would deliver his ruling in October but has not as yet done so.

Major and his lawyer noted in a local daily the law gives people 30 days to appeal a Coroner’s Court ruling, claiming that the officers were out of time with the application.

Major says the matter is making it difficult for his family to get closure.

Major says he’s asked some high power to stand with them but got no response.