UPDATE FROM DOMINICA: ACCUSED CHILD ABDUCTOR SHOT DEAD

UPDATE FROM DOMINICA: ACCUSED CHILD ABDUCTOR SHOT DEAD 

The man accused of abducting a 12 year old in Dominica, sparking a nationwide search is dead.

31 year-old Keyan Alexander who is alleged to have abducted 12 year old Kernisha Etienne over a week ago, succumbed to a gunshot wound on Saturday.

The circumstances surrounding how he was shot were not immediately clear, however the search is continuing for the 12 year old girl.

The fugitive was on the run for the past eleven days.

The man believed to have been mentally ill took Etienne from her home shortly before midnight on June 7.

The police reported that Alexander went to the home of his uncle, Laurent Joseph Bruno and attacked him with a cutlass inflicting serious wounds to his head and face, before leaving with the 12-year-old.