Claudia Gardner, Gleaner Writer
LUCEA, Hanover:
TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Kevin Ferguson, a businessman and contender for the Lucea divisional seat for the People's National Party, died on Saturday night from gunshot wounds he sustained in an attack at his home earlier in the afternoon.
Reports are that shortly before 5 o'clock, Mr. Ferguson was at his home in Esher when he was attacked by assailants. He was shot in the abdomen and neck and was also stabbed in the back.
Neighbours in the vicinity who heard the shots came to Mr. Ferguson's assistance and took him to the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea. He was later transferred to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, where he died several hours later while undergoing treatment.
Mr. Ferguson was also an officer of the PNP Western Hanover's executive body and was one of three contenders vying to represent the PNP as councillor/caretaker of the Lucea division of the Hanover Parish Council. He was also an executive member of the Hanover Parish Development Committee.
BRILLIANT FUTURE
Member of Parliament for Western Hanover, Ralston Anson, in reacting to Mr. Ferguson's death, said Mr. Ferguson had a bright political future ahead of him.
And Mr. Ferguson's mentor, chairman of the Hanover Parish Development Committee (HPDC) Nerris Hawthorne, said Mr. Ferguson's death has left her distraught.
"He has worked hard in this parish in all community organisations, giving of himself freely in the 4H Club, the police council, the HPDC and the Chamber of Commerce," she said. "I am absolutely puzzled how anyone could take the life of someone so young, so promising. He is a great loss to us."
