December 22, 2024
Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Jamaica
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NO CLUES IN EXECUTION-STYLE MURDER

FOURTH MURDER IN A WEEK IN ST ANN

Police have no clues for the motive of the execution-style murder of a taxi operator in St Ann on Tuesday, March 19.

Dead is Marlon Mullings of Windsor Heights St Ann’s Bay.

Reports are that a resident of Aberdeen, near Brown’s Town, came upon the body of a male in his driveway at about 6:30. The man was lying on his back in a pool of blood. The police were called.

Police found the body of the man with a single gunshot wound to the head.

There are theories that Manning was killed nearby, sometime between late Monday night and early Tuesday

That murder is the latest of four in the parish of St Ann in a week.

On Monday, March 12 a security guard was shot dead at a cambio in Ocho Rios. On Friday night another guard was shot dead in Runaway Bay. Those murders have been reported by the North Coast Times.

In the most recent murder, a vendor was slain on Saturday morning, March 16, in St Ann’s Bay.

Dead is Robert Campbell, 67 years old, of New Ground, Lime Hall. Reports are that Campbell, a vendor was at his stall near the Transport Centre in St Ann’s Bay when two men pounced upon him and shot him several times. He was pronounced dead at the nearby St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital.