Shooting in Sainte-Anne: 18-year-old man charged with injuring a baby
An 18-year-old has been charged and remanded in custody in Guadeloupe for the November 2025 shooting that seriously injured a child of 18 months.
Arrest in Guadeloupe: 18-year-old suspect charged in shooting that seriously injured an infant
An 18-year-old man was charged with attempted murder and remanded in custody after admitting to being the perpetrator of gunfire that wounded an 18-month-old child and his father in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, according to 20minutes.fr. The prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre, Caroline Calbo, announced the news on Monday evening in a statement.
The events date back to 23 November 2025. A couple was parked in their vehicle in Sainte-Anne, in the south of Grande-Terre, their 18-month-old son in the back seat, when five individuals with concealed faces emerged from another car. One of them, armed with a rifle, approached while mentioning drugs that he said had been stolen from him, before opening fire twice on the father and child. The others then allegedly fired with handguns.
Hit in the head, the infant's life was in danger. Transferred to Martinique on 27 November, he was only able to return home on 19 December. The father lost his left eye in the shooting.
The suspect had evaded a first attempted arrest on 3 December 2025 and had been actively sought since then. He was finally arrested last Thursday by the investigation section of Pointe-à-Pitre, before being presented to an investigating judge the following Saturday. "He admitted to being the perpetrator of the gunfire," the prosecutor Calbo stated in her statement.
A few days before this tragedy, a three-year-old child had already been seriously wounded by gunfire and a 26-year-old man killed in Lamentin, Martinique, whilst they were in a vehicle. The young boy, seated in the back of the car, had also been hit in the head and his life was in danger.
These events occur within a worrying context: in Martinique as in Guadeloupe, the authorities are warning of a massive circulation of firearms fuelled by drug trafficking. The French Antilles have become a privileged transit point between South America, the United States and Europe.
Source: Google News GP — Crime