{"id":1910,"date":"2018-11-07T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:30:07","slug":"businesswoman-attacker-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"Businesswoman, attacker killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The police hierarchy in Area One has launched a top-level probe into last Friday\u2019s gun attack on a Trelawny businesswoman resulting in her death and that of one of her alleged attackers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dead businesswoman is 50-year-old Jacqueline-Cargill Gardener of Florence Hall, Trelawny and 31-year-old Phillip Desmond Grinion, otherwise called \u2018Blacks\u2019 or \u2018Stocky\u2019 of Falmouth Street. He was shot and killed by a licensed firearm holder. A gun and several rounds of ammunition were also seized by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Information received by the <strong>Western Mirror <\/strong>indicates that about 4:25 p.m. on Friday, Cargill-Gardener was at her business place along Foreshore Road, when she was approached by three men, two armed with guns.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men reportedly opened gunfire at her, hitting her all over her body. A licensed firearm holder, who was close by, challenged the gunmen who tried to escape into a nearby swamp.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called and during search of the area, two men were found suffering from gunshot wounds. One of the men was found clutching a Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol with a magazine containing three 9mm rounds of ammunition. The weapon and ammunition were seized.<\/p>\n<p>The men were taken to hospital where Grinion was pronounced dead, while the other, said to be of a Tower Hill, St. James address, was admitted to hospital under police guard.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a third man listed in connection with Cargill-Gardener\u2019s death, turned himself to the Ulster Spring Police on Monday in the presence of a Minister of Religion.<\/p>\n<p>Cargill-Gardener\u2019s death brings the murder tally in the parish close to thirty since the start of the year, when compared with 21 for the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police hierarchy in Area One has launched a top-level probe into last Friday\u2019s gun attack on a Trelawny businesswoman resulting in her death and that of one of her alleged attackers. The dead businesswoman is 50-year-old Jacqueline-Cargill Gardener of Florence Hall, Trelawny and 31-year-old Phillip Desmond Grinion, otherwise called \u2018Blacks\u2019 or \u2018Stocky\u2019 of Falmouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[948,949,950,314,30],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-businesswoman-killed","tag-jacqueline-cargill-gardener","tag-smith-and-wesson","tag-trelawny","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","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=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}