Relatives and friends of the slain person

Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer

A one-year-old boy is now orphaned, after his parents were two of three persons shot and killed along Spanish Town Road in Kingston yesterday afternoon.

The incident occurred about 2 o'clock near the intersection of Collie Smith Drive and Spanish Town Road, when gunmen sprayed a Toyota Corolla motor car conveying George Mair, 47, along with Trudy-Ann Anderson, 22, and her child's father, 25-year-old Dwayne Allen. They were all returning from the nearby Denham Town Police Station where Allen had earlier reported as a condition of his bail.

It is reported that while they were travelling towards home, at First Street, a brown Toyota motor car bumped into their vehicle. When Mair stopped to investigate, two of the men armed with high-powered weapons and the others with handguns, opened fire, killing all three on the spot.

When The Gleaner visited the area, the ill-fated motor car was still on the scene with numerous bullet holes, and the occupants having gunshot wounds all over their bodies, still seated. Hundreds of residents had converged on the scene.

"A lucky di baby lucky, because Trudy did tek up him an Dwayne tell har fi lef di baby and see it deh now, if di likkle picney did out yah dem woudda kill him tuh," remarked one woman, claimed to be close to Trudyand Dwayne.

In the wrong place

A police officer collects evidence at the crime scene where George Mair, 47, Trudy-Ann Anderson, 22, and her child's father, 25-year-old Dwayne Allen, were shot and killed yesterday. The Toyota Corolla station wagon in which they were travelling was riddled with bullets. - Photos by Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

Others expressed the view that Mair was simply in the wrong place with the wrong passengers, as it was out of kindness that he took Allen to the police station.

The police have confirmed that Allen had reported at the station a short while before he was shot and killed. Supt. Delroy Hewitt said that, "Allen was injured in September during a joint military operation, he was taken into custody, charged with shooting with intent and was recently granted bail, and had been reporting for the last few weeks."