{"id":2239,"date":"2019-03-13T17:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2019-03-13T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:07:06","slug":"5-deaths-1-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"5 Deaths, 1 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>St. James again under siege<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Michael Nattoo<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The murder of a prostitute; an armed, military-like robbery which left two men dead, and the shooting deaths of two other men, all within 24 hours in the again crime-ridden St. James, have left citizens of the parish on edge, fearing that the worst is yet to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dead are 24-year-old Kerrian Campbell, otherwise called\n\u2018Ker\u2019, of John\u2019s Hall; Floyd Wilson, 47-year-old driver of Rosemount Gardens;\n61-year-old Canute Earle, a Hawkeye Security Officer; Suneil Foskins,\nunemployed of Bethel Town, Westmoreland, and Allan Waters, otherwise called\n\u2018Hot Beer\u2019, a 44-year-old labourer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what is arguably St. James\u2019 bloodiest day since the State of Emergency was lifted, the tragic slaying of Floyd Wilson and Canute Earle along Jarrett Street on Sunday signaled the beginning of what turned out to be an unusually busy day for Crime Scene Investigators across the parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that much-publicized incident, according to police\nreports, Wilson and Earle were a part of a team tasked with safely escorting a\nbusinessman who was reportedly traveling with important documents, as well as\nan undetermined sum of cash, suspected to be in the millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details reaching this newsroom are that shortly after\ncollecting two bags of cash and important documents from his business\nestablishment, the businessman boarded his Toyota Hiace bus, which was being\ndriven by Wilson, with Hawkeye security personnel Earle, and another man,\nproviding armed coverage, following closely behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On reaching a section of Jarrett Street, the standard escort\nmission turned deadly when a Toyota motorcar drove out into the path of the\nHiace, blocking it along the narrow roadway. In rapid succession, four men, all\nwearing denim and bulletproof vests and armed with M16 rifles, alighted from\nthe Toyota motorcar and instantly opened fire at the Hiace and the security\npersonnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the barrage of .223 calibre bullets from the M16\nrifles, the businessman somehow managed to escape unharmed, leaving the cash\nand the documents behind. The armed men, whom many suspect are trained\nprofessionals, then made off with the cash and documents in a waiting car,\nwhile Wilson and Earle were found to be suffering from gunshot wounds. In a\nchilling video captured by residents who descended upon the scene of the brazen\nrobbery, Earle was briefly captured holding his neck, which appeared severely\nwounded by bullets. He died while undergoing surgery, after he and the other\nHawkeye security personnel, who also sustained multiple gunshot but is now in\nstable condition, were rushed to the hospital by residents. Wilson, however,\ndied on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018KER\u2019 KILLED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crime Scene Investigators, who were quick to the scene of\nthe shocking robbery\/double murder, had to stretch themselves thin after being\nalerted to the body of a female being found along Fisherman\u2019s Beach off Howard\nCooke Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dispatched investigators arrived at their second murder\nscene of the day, where the body of Campbell was found, clad in a burgundy\nshirt and blue jeans shorts, with multiple stab wounds observed, and its head\nbashed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to unconfirmed reports, Campbell, who regularly\nuses the beach to conduct sexual transactions, was seen arguing with one of her\nsuspected clients. The reports further allege that minutes later, Campbell\nbrandished a pair of scissors, and not long after, neither she nor her client\nwere seen. The dispute was reportedly over her client refusing to pay her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday morning, her body was found lying face down along\nthe beach. Investigations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018HOT BEER\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, police personnel could not catch a break on\nSunday as some distance away, in Norwood, St. James, in close proximity to an\narea known as \u2018Hollywood\u2019, Walters, who\u2019s more popularly known as \u2018Hot Beer\u2019,\nwas shot and killed by unknown assailants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to information reaching this newsroom, Walters was\nsitting at the intersection of Forrest Lane and Daca Tone Square, when men in a\nwhite Toyota Premio motorcar pulled up next to him. Men reportedly alighted\nfrom the vehicle and opened fire on Walters, hitting him to the upper body.\nAnother man who was close by was also injured in the incident, but only\nsuffered a grazed, upper left arm. Both men were rushed to the Cornwall\nRegional Hospital, where Walters was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would not be the last stop for crime sleuths, as\nshortly after, sometime around 10:00 a.m., the lawmen were called to\nneighbouring Farm Hill, where another murder had taken place. In that incident,\nthe police later found out, Suneil Foskins was doing construction work on a\nhouse, when a lone gunman approached and opened fire at him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foskins was shot to the head and upper body, and after being\nrushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, he was pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BUSINESS COMMUNITY WORRIED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. James has recorded more than its share of murders since\nthe State of Emergency has been lifted, and the business community has taken\nnotice of the worrying trends. In a joint statement released by the Montego Bay\nChamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) and the Jamaica Hotel Tourist\nAssociation and (JHTA), there are \u201cincreasing concerns regarding the trend of\ncriminal activities within the city of Montego Bay and the parish of St. James\nsince the announced intentions and actual withdrawal of the Enhanced Security\nMeasures (State of Public Emergency).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both bodies shared that despite the government\u2019s\nreassurances that every effort will be made to ensure the parish builds on the\ngains made under the State of Public Emergency, the \u201crising trend of brazen,\ncold-hearted shootings and killings\u201d has betrayed the Jamaican government\u2019s\nexpressed sentiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe MBCCI and the JHTA are calling on the Government of\nJamaica and the joint security forces to hasten the implementation of the\nrelevant policies, legislation and strategies to bring an instant halt to this\nundesirable trend that has returned to the city and parish of St. James,\u201d they\nshared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent murders account for just a fraction of the rising\ncriminality here in the parish, and do not fully account for the worrying trend\nof crime across the parish. There have been a number of shootings across St.\nJames, one of which saw the home of recently deceased youngster, Jordanian\nHodges, being shot up by marauding gunmen, during which a senior citizen was\ninjured and hospitalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murder of a prostitute; an armed, military-like robbery which left two men dead, and the shooting deaths of two other men, all within 24 hours in the again crime-ridden St. James, have left citizens of the parish on edge, fearing that the worst is yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-montego-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}