{"id":1761,"date":"2018-09-05T19:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:21:49","slug":"barber-gunned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Barber gunned down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barrington Flemming – <\/strong>Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n

Another family has been plunged into grief with a common law wife stunned into silence as she struggles to come to grips with the death of her loved one, after gunmen struck on Tuesday claiming the life of 27-year-old barber, Balmain Brown otherwise called \u2018Shoppy\u2019 of Copse, Hanover.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reports indicate that about 12:10 a.m., residents heard explosions and summoned the police. The police came and discovered Brown\u2019s body along the roadway lying in a pool of blood with several gunshot wounds to the head and side. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s common law wife was too traumatized to speak so his sister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Western Mirror<\/strong> that she and other relatives began to worry when they saw a certain time and they did not see him arrive home as was his custom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not see him and became worried for his safety. We heard gunshots about 12:08 a.m. and we became even more disturbed.\u00a0 So we started calling his phone because normally he would come home already. We did not see him so at minutes to 1o\u2019clock we went out onto the road to search for him.<\/p>\n

She related that when they did not see him, they began to surmise that he would have heard the gunshots, turned off the phone and was hiding in the bushes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continued to search for him and we eventually saw him lying along the roadside about half a mile from where he lives. It was heartrending to see his body with the blood all around him, so we called the police and they came and took him to hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n

Brown, who has been a barber for about 7 years, operated from Barnett Street in Montego Bay. He was the father of a four-year-old son and was described as a jovial person who loved to play football.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the type of person to go to work and come home.\u00a0 He also loved to play football but he would always come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barrington Flemming – Staff Reporter Another family has been plunged into grief with a common law wife stunned into silence as she struggles to come to grips with the death of her loved one, after gunmen struck on Tuesday claiming the life of 27-year-old barber, Balmain Brown otherwise called \u2018Shoppy\u2019 of Copse, Hanover. Reports indicate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,826,20,825,30],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-balmain-brown","tag-barber-gunned-down","tag-murder","tag-shoppy","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}