By STAFF WRITER, The Freeport News

Police are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the weekend shooting of a well-known insurance executive.

Dashwell Flowers, 43, vice president of sales at ColinaImperial, is presently resting in stable condition at Doctors Hospital in Nassau with serious injuries sustained during the armed robbery at his residence on Saturday night.

Police say that at about 10:45 p.m., a female telephoned the duty officer at the Police Dispatch Center in Freeport and reported that her neighbor in Treasure Cove, Fortune Bay, had just been robbed and shot.

Uniformed and plainclothes officers accompanied by EMS personnel were dispatched to that location and upon arrival saw Flowers suffering from a gunshot wound to his left shoulder.

He told the officers that he had arrived home around 10:43 p.m. and parked his car inside the garage.

As he exited the vehicle, he was suddenly accosted by two dark males armed with handguns who demanded money. A struggle immediately ensued with the gunmen, during which he was shot in the left shoulder.

He was then robbed of his Motorola cellphone along with an undetermined amount of cash.

The men fled on foot into the nearby bushes and disappeared.

Flowers was taken to the Trauma Centre at the Rand Memorial Hospital, where he received emergency medical treatment, then was detained. He was airlifted to Doctors Hospital around 6:00 a.m. on Sunday for further medical treatment.

Flowers has over 23 years of experience in the insurance industry. He holds several professional designations in Certified Management (CM), Chartered Leadership Fellow (CLF), and Chartered Insurance Agency Management (CIAM).

Prior to joining ColinaImperial, Flowers worked at Family Guardian Insurance Company then moved on to Imperial Life Financial where he held several management positions, the most recent of which was Regional Director of the Northern Bahamas.

Flowers is also executive chairman of the Red Rose Ball's planning committee. The Ball is the primary fund-raiser for the Grand Bahama AIDS Awareness Committee.

At last year's Ball, held in November, the Grand Bahama AIDS Awareness Committee received a cheque in the amount of $50,000, a donation that surpassed the previous year's by $10,000.