NEW YEAR'S resolutions do not appear to have stopped the killings.
The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) reported that a Mandeville householder shot dead one of two men who attacked him with machetes yesterday morning. The householder, resident at Caledonia Road, Manchester, reportedly heard noises at about 2:35 a.m. and went to investigate when he was allegedly set upon. One man escaped, while the dead man is unidentified.
Two men were found shot, and later pronounced dead, inside a car that had crashed into a wall at Lorraine Avenue, Kingston 10 at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday night. Inside the Toyota Camry were 25-year-old Steve Stewart of Collins Path, Cockburn Gardens, Kingston 10 and the other man, believed to be about 30 years old, is unidentified.
Meanwhile, the CCN has reported that the police are awaiting the government pathologist's report into the finding of the body of a 70-year-old woman in a canefield in Mais Muir district, Westmoreland, yesterday morning. Janice Jarret of Delve Land district was discovered by passers-by at about 6:45 a.m.
And in Chocolate district, Frankfield, Clarendon, a 59-year-old farmer was found dead, believed to run over by his own tractor on Sunday morning. The body of Clarence Stewart was discovered next to his tractor, on his farm by a relative at 6:00 p.m. Relatives had searched for him after he failed to return home, having left for work at 8:00 p.m. Investigators believe he fell under the wheels.
- L.S.
