{"id":1004,"date":"2018-01-03T18:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2018-01-03T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:40:15","slug":"cornwallian-killed-in-lauderhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Cornwallian  killed in  Lauderhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A former Cornwall College student, who migrated to the United States more than six years ago, was shot and killed in Lauderhill, Florida, while attending a New Year\u2019s Eve party.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He has been identified as 26-year-old Paul Nelson Jr.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed just before 11 p.m. on Sunday outside a house in Lauderhill, an area which is home to several Jamaicans and Caribbean nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Lauderhill Police Department reported that they were called to a report of shooting and found Nelson suffering from several gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood that he was among a group of friends attending a New Year\u2019s Eve party when a man approached him and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, described by overseas law enforcements as black, slender build and standing 6 feet tall, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, managed to flee the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong> contacted his father, Paul Nelson, a popular Red Cap Porter at the Sangster International Airport who resides in Montego Bay, he was at a loss for words. \u201cWords can\u2019t explain the pain I am feeling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left this country six, seven years ago and to lose him in that fashion is really gut-wrenching\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased Nelson reportedly died, leaving a pregnant girlfriend who is said to be carrying twins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Cornwall College student, who migrated to the United States more than six years ago, was shot and killed in Lauderhill, Florida, while attending a New Year\u2019s Eve party. He has been identified as 26-year-old Paul Nelson Jr. He was killed just before 11 p.m. on Sunday outside a house in Lauderhill, an area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[340,54,97,341],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cornwall","tag-cornwall-college","tag-cornwallian","tag-lauderhill"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}