{"id":2323,"date":"2019-04-17T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2019-04-17T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:24:24","slug":"blood-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Blood stain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Barrington Flemming\/Craig Oates<\/strong><\/em> – Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spiraling cases\nof murder in Western Jamaica continue to prove a major challenge for\ncrime-fighters with blood continuing to stain the region. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violence-producers claimed the lives of three men, with the\ndead being identified as 35-year-old fisherman, Burnette Marston, otherwise\ncalled \u2018Blood Stain\u2019 of McQuarrie, Hopewell, Hanover; 38-year-old Joel Fraser,\ncook shop operator of Dalling Street, Westmoreland, and an unidentified man in\nSt. James. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports to the Western Mirror<\/strong> are that at about 5:30 Monday afternoon, Marston was walking along the Aston King Highway in Hanover, from the fishing beach towards Hopewell with a strong of fish in his hand. On reaching the intersection at the Pond Piece main road, he was approached by an unknown man who was armed with a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marston reportedly ran and the man chased him and fired several\nshots in his direction, sending several persons who were in the area scampering\nfor covering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marston, who received two shots to the head, was taken to\nhospital where he was pronounced dead. The gunman is said to have escaped on\nfoot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, Mayor of Lucea, Councillor Sheridan Samuels, in\ndeploring the latest shootings in the parish, called on the Police to take the\nnecessary actions to ensure that the criminal elements involved in the\nshootings be brought to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WESTMORELAND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in the neighbouring parish of Westmoreland, gun\ncrimes continue to keep investigators busy, with the murder of one man and the\nshooting and wounding of another in separate incidents in the parish between\nSunday and Monday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One firearm was also taken into police custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information gleaned by the Western Mirror is that about 6:55\np.m. on Sunday at Hatfield, Fraser was among a group of men at his cook shop,\nwhen a motorcycle rode up with two men aboard and stopped.  The men alighted from the motorcycle\nbrandishing handguns. They opened fire hitting Fraser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was taken to the Savanna-la-Mar General Hospital where he\nwas pronounced dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, still in Westmoreland, a man is now nursing a gunshot\nwound to the mouth after a tussle between another man and himself at his home in\nTruro, Frome on Monday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Reports indicate that\nat 10:55p.m., the man was about to open the front door to his house when a man\nknown to him approached pointing a gun at him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man reportedly ran to the side of the house and the\ngunman gave chase and caught up with him and shot him in the mouth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tussle ensued and the wounded man wrestled the gun from\nthe other man and ran to a nearby house to seek refuge. He was later accompanied\nto the police station and then taken to the hospital where he was admitted and\ntreated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ST. JAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, crime sleuths in St. James are still to identify\nthe body of man who was shot and killed at a party in Tucker on Saturday while\nanother man is in hospital nursing gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dead man is of dark complexion, medium build, 165\ncentimetres (5 feet 5 inches) in height and appears to be in his latest\ntwenties. The deceased also has a round face and a low haircut, and was clad in\ngrey T-shirt with the word \u2018Vendetta\u2019 written on the front, black jeans with a\nblack belt and cream shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports from the Granville Police are that about 11:40 p.m.,\npersons were at a party in the vicinity of a shop in the community when several\nexplosions were heard. The Police were called and on their arrival, the now\ndeceased was found lying face-down in the shop; he had been shot several times.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The injured man was found nearby. He was assisted to the\nhospital, where he was admitted for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports to the Western Mirror are that at about 5:30 Monday afternoon, Marston was walking along the Aston King Highway in Hanover, from the fishing beach towards Hopewell with a strong of fish in his hand. On reaching the intersection at the Pond Piece main road, he was approached by an unknown man who was armed with a gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}