The recent upsurge in murders in the garden parish of St Ann has also seen two persons who were originally from other parishes being killed in separate incidents.
Those shot and killed were: 31-year-old Damion King, a higgler of Bath in St Thomas, on Saturday night, May 20 and two days later, 26-year-old Everett Wallace, otherwise called Blacks and Shambo, a painter also of Central Village, was shot and killed in the Mansfield Heights area, which has been his home for some time.
ST THOMAS HIGGLER
Police say that it was while at a shop that Damion King met his end. Reports from the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) are that about 11 p.m. on May 20, King was at a shop on Windsor Road in St Ann’s Bay, when an armed man approached him and opened gunfire hitting him several times.
He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Last Friday, head of the St Ann police, superintendent Gary Francis said no breakthrough has been made in that murder, but investigations are ongoing into the matter.
MAY HAVE BEEN TARGETED
In the meantime, while no breakthrough has been yet made in the murder of Everett Wallace last Monday, May 22, Supt Francis disclosed that there is a possibility that Wallace may have been targeted.
It is understood that Wallace had “some run-ins” with the law and he also had a case before the court in Spanish Town.
The police reported that at about 9 p.m., Wallace was coming from a shop in the Mansfield Heights area (also called Falklands) and was on his way home, when two armed men approached him on foot and shot him in the upper body.
The men escaped the scene.
The police were summoned and Wallace was seen with gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
