November 18, 2024
Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Jamaica
NEWS

Killed for $100

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Police are looking for a man who slashed the throat of another, killing him in a fuss over $100, in a crowded Brown’s Town Bus Park, Saturday, May 23.Dead is 35-year-old back-up or loader man, Nikazahree Gordon, also called Chris and Firestick, of Philadelphia district, near Brown’s Town, St Ann.Gordon’s throat was slashed by a man he knew after the two engaged in an open row about how three hundred dollars should be split between the two. Reports to the North Coast Times are that on Saturday afternoon, Gordon and another man, said to be in his late 20s, were loading a bus at the brown’s Town bus park. When the bus was full and was about to leave, the bus driver reportedly gave Gordon three hundred dollars ($300) which was to be shared between the two loader men.

MONEY SHARED

Gordon reportedly gave the other man fifty dollars ($50) and told him he would get the balance later. The other man is well known to Gordon and bus crew using the park. It is reported that the man demanded one hundred dollars more from Gordon and a public row broke out with the two men squaring off against each other.An eyewitness told The Times that everybody stood looking at the men. He couldn’t say if both men drew knives. The man held Gordon, turned him around and pulled the knife across his throat. Blood spewed onto some of those watching the action.Gordon fell and was on the way to hospital when he died. The other man fled.Up to Sunday, no one had turned up at the Brown’s Town police station to give a statement although dozens of people saw what happened.The man accused of the killing is said to be from Kingston or Spanish Town and sources say he was wanted for a crime in St Catherine.Reports also are that Gordon and the man had been involved in several disputes, with Gordon beating the younger man on many occasions.Questions are again being raised about the use of so-called loader men in full view of police and Transport Authority personnel at bus parks and major towns across St Ann.