 The vicious murders of four prominent Jamaican homosexuals, the latest on Tuesday, have sparked fears of a “trend of gay slayings” in the Caribbean paradise.
Marvin Wilson, a 31-year-old Jamaican national who was reportedly gay, was stabbed in the chest in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to The Nassau Guardian.
Wilson's murder adds to concerns surrounding three other high profile gay murders on the island of New Providence over the past eight months.
The body of AIDS activist Wellington Adderley, his throat slit, was recently found in his apartment.
And late last year, handbag designer Harl Taylor and university lecturer Dr Thaddeus McDonald were both brutally slain.
There was no sign of forced entry at any of the murder scenes, which were all in the same vicinity.
Police have yet to file any charges in connection with those killings.
Police said Wilson's assailant had not planned the attack, given that the murder weapon reportedly came from Wilson's own knife collection.
Inspector Christopher Wright of the Homicide Division of the Royal Bahamas Police Force said that before he died from stab wounds, Wilson knocked on the door of a neighbor.
"Officers responded and upon their arrival they met a male lying here. He was unresponsive and he had stab wounds to the body," Wright said.
Though Wright said there “no information or evidence” to suggest the murders are related, gay and lesbian rights activist Erin Greene had told The Guardian following Adderley's murder that she was concerned by a "recent trend of gay slayings".
"Due to the vicious nature of these crimes and the fact that these are three prominent men who obviously knew each other and may or may not have socialised with each other we are not excluding that the murders could be related," Greene said.
"Whether it's a spree, there's no evidence to say that there is a person or a group of persons who are randomly targeting gay men or prominent gay men, we can't say that. But, it speaks to the high levels of intolerance of homophobia and the general levels of dysfunction in personal relationships."
Some polls show that over 90 per cent of Jamaicans oppose the increasing international calls for the country to decriminalise homosexuality.
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