{"id":2186,"date":"2019-02-20T21:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:21","slug":"murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many questions have been left unanswered, in an apparent case of murder-suicide, as 48-year-old businessman, Junior Wint, brutally ended the life of his 23-year-old common law wife,Wendy Scarlett, and then snuffed out his own, at Flamstead Gardens in St. James last Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"531\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Junior-Wint.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Junior-Wint.jpg 500w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Junior-Wint-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Junior Wint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what is being called a case of love gone sour, Scarlett,\na bar operator, was walking along the Flamstead main road about 1:30 p.m. on\nFriday, when Wint drove up in a grey Toyota Corolla motorcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An argument developed between them and Wint, who was a\nlicensed firearm holder,alighted from the vehicle andallegedly brandished the\ngun, a 9mm Canik pistol, which he used to shoot Scarlett and then turned the\nweapon on himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police were alerted and on arrival, Wint and Scarlett\nwere seen lying along the main road with bullet wounds to the heads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gun was later handed over to the police by a relative of\nScarlett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many questions have been left unanswered, in an apparent case of murder-suicide, as 48-year-old businessman, Junior Wint, brutally ended the life of his 23-year-old common law wife,Wendy Scarlett, and then snuffed out his own, at Flamstead Gardens in St. James last Friday. In what is being called a case of love gone sour, Scarlett, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1163,1162,1161,30],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-flamstead-gardens","tag-junior-wint","tag-murder-suicide","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}