{"id":2167,"date":"2019-02-13T17:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2019-02-13T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:47:39","slug":"turf-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Turf War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Another resident of\nSalt Spring, St. James, has been gunned down as tensions escalate between rival\nfactions operating in the community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest killing follows hot on the heels of several\nmurders and shootings in recent weeks, resulting in the police imposing a\ncurfew in the area last week in a bid to quell growing hostilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday night\u2019s killing of Nigel Marshall, otherwise called\n\u2018Kingman\u2019 of Buck Toe Lane, along King Street in Montego Bay, is said to be\nlinked to the ongoing feud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highly placed police sources theorize that the killing could\nbe in reprisal for the slaying of Matthew Whittingham of Buck Toe Lane, who was\ngunned down on Saturday, January 26, while having his hair groomed at a hair\nsalon in Albion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days later, a man was shot and killed and another shot and\nwounded in Cottage, which is in close proximity to Buck Toe Lane. This incident\nwas also said to be linked to the series of killings which prompted the\nsecurity forces to impose the curfew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports from the police are that Marshall was at a taxi\nstand at the intersection of King Street and Union Street in downtown Montego\nBay, when he was called over by someone in a vehicle. He reportedly walked over\nto the motor vehicle, when several explosions were heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police were alerted and when they arrived at the scene,\nMarshall was seen lying on his back with several gunshot wounds to the upper\nbody, three of them to the head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rising tensions have pitted factions against each other in\nthe community who are purportedly seeking to gain control of turf, which has\nagain pushed the area into the police\u2019s spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly placed police sources theorize that the killing could be in reprisal for the slaying of Matthew Whittingham of Buck Toe Lane, who was gunned down on Saturday, January 26, while having his hair groomed at a hair salon in Albion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1150,18,771,719,154,1148,30],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buck-toe-lane","tag-crime","tag-king-street","tag-salt-spring","tag-shooting","tag-turf-war","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","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=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}