A young woman is dead and her boyfriend battling for life in\nhospital following a drive-by shooting by men on motorcycle in Lances Bay,\nHanover on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dead is 24-year-oldKeneisha Kerr of Lances Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reports are that the couple was at home when two men drove\nup on a motorcycle and opened gunfire at the two who were in their yard. The\ncommon law couple was shot multiple times all over their bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gunmen made good their escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police were summoned and on arrival, the male was\ndiscovered suffering from gunshot wounds and the female shot to death inside\nthe house. The wounded man was treated and admitted in serious condition, while\nthe female was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunday\u2019s incident is one of several shootings to take place\nin Hanover since the start of the year and has left residents of the quiet\nseaside community fearing that this may be the start of things to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are afraid. We don\u2019t know what is going to happen next.\nWe need the police not only to come and patrol but to develop a relationship\nwith residents of the community,\u201d one elderly woman, who requested anonymity,\ntold the Western Mirror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another resident expressed sorrow at the fatal shooting of\nthe young lady \u201cshe was such a quiet and pretty girl, she didn\u2019t deserve to die\nlike that.\u201d He also was fearful that based on the rampage gunmen appear to be\nhaving across the parish no one is safe. \u201cThese guys move around with heavy\nweaponry, we need more security check points, I just know it won\u2019t end like\nthis,\u201d the concerned resident said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mayor of Lucea, Sheridan Samuels, expressed condolences to the family and the community and stated that he hopes the rising gun violence will be quickly brought under control. – Craig Oates<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A young woman is dead and her boyfriend battling for life in hospital following a drive-by shooting by men on motorcycle in Lances Bay, Hanover on Sunday. Dead is 24-year-oldKeneisha Kerr of Lances Bay. Reports are that the couple was at home when two men drove up on a motorcycle and opened gunfire at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1165,18,472,20,137,30],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-couple-shot","tag-crime","tag-hanover","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}