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A late-night robbery on Friday has ended in tragedy with the murder of 30-year-old Odelle Lalman-Baptiste, following a series of events that began with a carjacking and escalated into a police shootout.

According to police, around 11 p.m. on April 18, Lalman-Baptiste and her husband, 29-year-old car dealer Mathias Baptiste, were ambushed along Hospital Road in 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 with unknown registration pulled alongside them.

Two armed men exited the rear of the SUV and announced a robbery. They stole Baptiste’s vehicle $1,500 in cash, a Samsung Galaxy A05, and an iPhone 16. The suspects then abducted Lalman-Baptiste and fled the scene in the stolen vehicle.