Police investigators have not made a breakthrough in the stabbing death of an Ocho Rios barber last week Tuesday, January 10.
Twenty-three-year-old Dwight Robinson, alias OJ or Blacks of Buckfield in Ocho Rios, St Ann was found with multiple stab wounds at about 3:30 a.m. last Tuesday.
A police source close to the investigations revealed that they are still probing the incident. The source said that the police are now hoping to receive data information from Robinson’s cell phone number to help them in the case.
The source said that despite Robinson’s two cell phones being taken, this would not stop the police from getting the data information needed to help them in their probe.
It remains a mystery to family and friends why anyone would to harm the barber as he was not known to have had any disputes with anyone at the time of his death.
Information reaching The Times is that Robinson was last seen alive at about 8:30 p.m. on Monday night, January 9 by his landlord at a house where he rented a room in Buckfield in Ocho Rios.
It is further understood that another person, who had rented a room at a premises heard a sound. The man had apparently thought that it was Robinson and his girlfriend that were having a dispute.
The man left to investigate what happened, but when he was walking towards Robinson’s room he hit against some things in the passage way that made a noise.
Two men later came out of Robinson’s room.
The men allegedly shoved the man living at the house and told him to go back inside his room and mind his own business. It is further alleged that blood came off on the man’s shirt.
The man tried unsuccessful to reach police emergency at 119.
It was not until about 3 o’clock in the morning, that the man notified the landlord of what he had heard earlier.
The landlord went to Robinson’s room and later found him lying face down in a pool of blood. Some clothes and sheet were over him. Police were notified and Robinson was pronounced dead at the hospital.
In the meantime, head of crime at the St Ann police, deputy superintendent (DSP) Richard Hilton also confirmed that no breakthrough had been made in Robinson’s murder probe.
