Kidnapped nurse found slain hours after carjacking
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April 20, 2025
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Kidnapped nurse Odelle Lalman-Baptiste was found murdered yesterday, hours after a series of events that began with a carjacking and escalated into a police shoot-out.
According to police, around 11 p.m. on Friday, Lalman-Baptiste, 30, and her husband, 29-year-old car dealer Mathias Baptiste, were ambushed along Hospital Road, Carlsen Field.
The couple had stopped when Baptiste exited their white Hyundai H-100 truck to urinate. It was then that a black Nissan X-Trail SUV with unknown registration pulled alongside them.
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