NO MOTIVE YET FOR SIX DEATHS IN A MONTH IN THE SMALL ST ANN DISTRICT
The two men shot and killed in Priory, St Ann, Saturday evening, October 21, have been identified.
They are 44-year-old Dwight Harrison, a factory worker of Moneague in the parish, and 38-year-old Nicholas Dobson of Priory.
Police have still not determined a motive for the murders.
Reports are that several people were gathered at a shop near Priory Square, and the well-known Pudding Shop, when two men armed with guns approached them and opened fire.
Five men were hit.
the gunmen fled in a motorcar in which they arrived on the scene.
Two of them were pronounced dead at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital, about a mile away.
The deaths mean that in less than a month six people have been murdered in the Priory area. Two were killed in the Sea View Heights community September 30.
There are reports that a dispute over land has sparked tension and led to the violence while other reports say a gang war is the source of the violence.
C Hall
Here is the official CCU report released after noon on Sunday, October 22
FIVE SHOT, TWO FATALLY IN ST ANN
October 22, 2023 – Detectives assigned to the Area 2 Major Investigations Division are probing
the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of two men and the injury of three others
following a shooting incident in St. Ann’s Bay, St. Ann on Saturday, October 21.
Dead are 42-year-old Dwight Harrison a factory worker of River Head, Moneaque and 38-year-
old Nicholas Hobson labourer of Steer Town, both in St. Ann.
Reports are that about 8:25 p.m., Harrison, Hobson and the tree other men were at a shop cooking,
when they were pounced upon by two gunmen travelling in a motor car, who alighted from the
vehicle and shot them. The police were alerted and all five men were taken to hospital where
Harrison and Hobson were pronounced dead and the other three men were admitted for treatment.
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