DOUBLE MURDER IN PARRY TOWN, 1 KILLED IN OCHI, 1 IN RUNAWAY BAY
UPDATED WITH PHOTO at 11:30 Sunday
OCHO RIOS, St Ann; July 6, 2025
FOUR men were shot and killed in three separate incidents in St Ann between Friday and Saturday night. One man is battling for life, arising from one of the incidents.
The killings took place in about 24 hours, and all involved a gun.
Dead are:
- 48-year-old vendor, Anthony Elliott, also called School Boy, of Scarlett Hall, Runaway Bay
- 56-year-old-painter, Paul Brooks o/c Matterhorn of Parry Town
- 30-year-old Lemar Lynch o/c Buju of Parry Town – all three of St Ann, and
- 53-year-old Gerald Small of Commodore, St Catherine
The murders have shocked people in the parish. Some business people and two politicians contacted by the North Coast Times said they were unable to remember any 24-hour period in which four people had been violently killed.
The incidents took place in Scarlett Hall, Runaway Bay; the resort town of Ocho Rios; and Parry Town, a district of Ocho Rios.
(Anthony Elliott, o/c School Boy, at home)
In the Scarlett Hall incident, reports are that 48-year-old Anthony Elliott, also called School Boy, a vendor, had earlier got home from selling on the piazza at the main supermarket in Runaway Bay. About 9:45 p.m., he and his son were sitting on the rear veranda of the house. Two men, one armed with a gun and the other with a hammer, forced the man and his son inside the house and robbed them of cash. The gunman fired a shot, hitting Mr Elliott in the upper body. He died on the scene. The son was unharmed.
PARRY TOWN
In the double murder in Parry Town, about 10:30 p.m., three men were standing outside a shop at Grove Village, next to the community ball ground. Two masked men approached and opened fire. All three men were hit. They were taken to hospital where two were pronounced dead and a third is battling for life.
Those killed are 56-year-old painter Paul Brooks, o/c Matterhorn, and 30-year-old Lamar Lynch o/c Buju warehouse assistant, both of Parry Town.
The shooting death in Ocho Rios.was on Friday night, NOT Saturday as the North Coast Times reported in an earlier edition of this story. Dead is 53-year-old Gerald Kensley Small, otherwise called ‘Jerry’, an entrepreneur from Commodore district in St Catherine.
Reports are that about 11:35 p.m., Friday Small was standing along Main Street in Ocho Rios, near a bar, when men approached and shot him. It is not clear if he was robbed.
Speaking to the North Coast Times after visiting the scene of the double murder in his Division, Councillor Ian ‘Trumpet’ Bell condemned the violence. He said, “I can’t remember anything like this in a 24-hour period. This flare-up in criminal activities will not be tolerated in this parish.”
