A 33-year-old St Mary man has been charged with stabbing a mourner to death at a funeral in the parish.
Charged is thirty-three-year-old Ramone McLean, otherwise called ‘Tilly’, a truck driver of Huddersfield, Stewart Town, St. Mary. He has been charged with the murder of a man on the Heywood Hall main road, Port Maria, St. Mary on Monday, January 23.
Dead is fifty-year-old Marvin Watson a labourer of Huddersfield, Stewart Town, St. Mary.
Reports from the Port Maria Police are that about 4:00 p.m., on Sunday, January 15, McLean and Watson had a dispute while attending a funeral. During the altercation, McLean used a knife to stab Watson.
The Police were alerted and Watson was taken to hospital where he died whilst being treated. An investigation was launched and Mclean was arrested. Following a question and answer session in the presence of his attorney, he was charged. McLean is scheduled to appear before the St. Mary Parish Court on Thursday, January 26.
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