Police have charged a St Mary man with the murder of a bartender in the Ocho Rios market.
Charged with murder is 47-year-old Rohan Edwards, mason of Oracabessa St Mary.
Edwards was charged Friday with the murder of Shanna Burke, a 38-year-old bartender, who was killed in the Ocho Rios market, St Ann, on Saturday night, May 6.
SSP Powell making the announcement
The man is reported to have been in a relationship with Miss Burke and was held Wednesday in Racecourse, St Mary.
Head of St Ann police, Senior Superintendent Dwight Powell told the St Ann Municipal Corporation, Thursday, that police had made an arrest in the murder.
Burke was found stabbed to death on the floor of a restroom where she had gone, from serving at a bar at the front of the Ocho Rios Market, Saturday evening about 9 o’clock.
