Here are further thoughts from around the Island in the wake of teenager Kellon Hill's death.

Wayne Furbert, UBP MP and distant relative of Kellon Hill: "I was deeply hurt. My condolences go out to the Hill family who are my relatives also.

"We as a community need to search our souls, ourselves, to try and come to some discussion about what we can do. I don't have the answers. If I did I would be a wealthy man.

"This is not the Bermuda I came up in. It's not the Bermuda we want either for our children and grandchildren. We need to start talking to young people to learn what has happened what has gone wrong. We have got to say that enough is enough and that the community won't accept this irrational behaviour. Something is broken and we have to fix this.

"We as leaders in the community have to accept the example also. They may see us bickering and battering so much among ourselves, and disagreeing just to disagree, young people may think it is behaviour we have to accept."

Energy Minister and West End MP Terry Lister: "As adults we can throw a lot of stuff at young people, but until they themselves say: 'This is what I want,' it is difficult to change them. It comes down to the individual: the youngster himself has to place limits on his behaviour. The person has to have a goal for himself. Day by day we have to take steps to get them to the place where they need to be and help them have goals for themselves."

UBP MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin: "I am truly saddened that this senseless tragedy has become a reality for an upstanding young man and his family. My heart grieves for them as they process the events of the past few days. My prayers will remain with them through this very difficult time."

Carlene Zavane Spencer-Darrell, parent of a 17-year-old son: "I know that if that was my son who was killed I would want his friends and any witnesses to come forward, however on the flip side I find it very disturbing that my son could have been a witness.

There are tons of solutions from parents being held accountable to education and it is going to take more than just one institution to see them to fruition. We need to stop talking and just DO IT!"

Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler: "We extend our deepest condolences to the Hill family. This is a period of mourning which has to be followed by a period of reflection then deep thought, planning and action.

"How do you get people to accept advice, to discipline their children, stop giving them things to make them feel happy when they really want their parents: Time, Attention, Praise. How do we get this minority of parents to accept that being a parent is a lifetime commitment that demands: Love, Interest, Caring, Kindness, Sacrifice."

Gazette reader Kaila Outerbridge: "All I can think about is the Hill Family because of what happened and I have learned since the horrible death of Rhiana Moore. STAY STRONG HILLS 'N' MOORES."

Gazette reader Tika Gilbert: "I don't understand where we went wrong with youth today. My thoughts and prayers are with the Hill family."

Former Premier David Saul: "One can only wonder what the attitude of the mother AND father of the children charged with this terrible crime committed so late at night was BEFORE and AFTER the crime was committed?

"Did the parents care where their children were that night? Do the feel any responsibility for the activities of their child? Is there a father living at home and sharing the upbringing and discipline of their child?"

Shahidah Abdur-Rahim who lost her son Aquil Richardson when he was shot on boxing day last year said:"I think about my son all the time. I just feel sorry for the victims families that they have this loss and for the perpetrators.

I do extend my sincere condolences and I looked in the phone book to call them but could not find the number.

"It's a really hard job being a parent these days. I think it's wrong to blame parents. I don't have the people who did this to my son. I know there is nothing I can do, I know they will be dealt with.

"I think I am in my own world right now. I feel like my life is death and dying and every times someone else dies I ask what is this. I am not in this paradise Island anymore; it's a twilight zone.

"The world has definitely changed and it had change the minds of people. Things are not they way things used to be 30 years ago.

"I really don't know what the solution is and I am not going to try and say what it is but some of my feelings are that society is moving fast and some of the children are getting lost.

"Some can move with it and some cannot."