{"id":2283,"date":"2019-03-29T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2019-03-29T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:58:02","slug":"8-dead-in-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"8 dead in 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Police kill one<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Barrington Flemming<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The scourge of bloodshed sweeping across the parish of St. James, which included two double murders on Thursday, continues as violence producers struck, claiming the lives of seven men in three days, while a man was shot and killed during an alleged confrontation with the police. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dead men have been identified as: Duwayne Stennett and\nShane Williams, also called \u2018Tino\u2019, both of Rose Heights addresses; 38-year-old\nOmar Melville, shop owner of Canaan district, Ryan Martin, otherwise called\n\u2018Bag Juice\u2019, unemployed of St. John\u2019s; Herbert Dally, otherwise called \u2018Jah\nSon\u2019, mechanic of Orange, two unidentified men and Lance Calvert of Cottage,\nSalt Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information on the latest incident involving the two\nunidentified men is sketchy, but our newsroom understands that the two were\nattacked and shot dead by unknown assailant (s)on busy Barnett Street shortly\nbefore 5:30 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier Thursday morning, it was reported that a group of men gathered at the front of a yard in Rose Heights shortly after 8 o\u2019clock when three gunmen walked up and opened fire hitting them. The injured were rushed to hospital where Stennett and Williams were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dwayne-Stennet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dwayne-Stennet.jpg 326w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dwayne-Stennet-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption>Dwayne Stennett, one of two men killed in Rose Heights on Thursday morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 9.p.m. on Wednesday, Melville was at home at Canaan\ndistrict, with his girlfriend, when they heard someone outside calling for\n\u2018serve\u2019at the shop. Melville went outside to the shop to attend to who was\ncalling, when armed men alighted from a white motorcar and opened gunfire\nhitting him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men entered the motorcar and made good their escape. The\npolice were alerted and on arrival, Melville was seen lying facing down in a\npool of blood inside his shop suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was rushed to the CRH where he was pronounced dead on\narrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>POLICE KILLING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just under two hours later, about 10:57 p.m., a police party was in Cottage, Salt Spring, when they reportedly came under heavy gunfire. The lawmen said they took evasive action and returned the fire. When the shooting subsided, one man was seen suffering from gunshot wounds. He was subsequently identified as Calvert, who was taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. One 9mm pistol and four 9 mm cartridges were allegedly seized at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lance-Calvert.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lance-Calvert.jpg 254w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lance-Calvert-152x300.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><figcaption>Lance Calvert, who was fatally shot in an alleged shootout with police in Cottage, Salt Spring on Wednesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Tuesday also saw two murders being committed,\nwhen about 3:30p.m., Martin is reported to have taken his Zhunjain motorcycle\nto a garage along the Retirement main road in Granville, St. James, to have it\nrepaired. Shortly after, residents reported hearing explosions in the vicinity\nof the garage and alerted the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police came to the scene where they discovered Martin\nlying on his back in a pool of blood along a footpath between a shop and a jerk\ncentre with a gunshot wound to the right side of his head.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crime sleuths did not get any chance to rest as they\nwere called to another homicide scene just under an hour later at the Orange\nBall Ground, where Dally\u2019s body was discovered lying on its back with what\nappeared to be gunshot wounds to the chin and left ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scourge of bloodshed sweeping across the parish of St. James, which included two double murders on Thursday, continues as violence producers struck, claiming the lives of seven men in three days, while a man was shot and killed during an alleged confrontation with the police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-western-mirror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","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=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}