{"id":2804,"date":"2019-08-21T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2019-08-21T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:18:47","slug":"electrician-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"Electrician shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2022 Decomposing body found<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gunmen shot and\nkilled a man in the community of Glendevon on Saturday, as gun crimes continue\nto dominate the crime profile of the parish, which has seen 82 murders since\nthe start of the year, 24 more than the 58 recorded for the corresponding\nperiod last year<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old Keniel\nAnderson, electrician of Tangle River, St. James, who it is said had been\nreporting to the Spring Mount Police on condition of bail for murder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports from the Montego Bay Police are that about 2:15 p.m.\non Saturday, Anderson, who reportedly went to the Salt Spring main road to\nvisit his father, was walking in the vicinity of Rough Road when residents\nheard explosions and alerted the lawmen. On their arrival, Anderson was seen\nlying face down on the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;He was taken to\nhospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the police are investigating the circumstances\nwhich could have led to the gruesome discovery of a decomposing body of an\nunidentified male along Fort Street in the Western City on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The body is said to be in&nbsp;\nits late 20\u2019s, dark complexion, medium build 1.78 centimetres long and\nclad in a pair of multi-coloured shorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is reported that passers-by found the partially\ndecomposed body about 10:15 a.m. behind a restroom and summoned the police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scene was processed and the remains removed to the\nmorgue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen shot and killed a man in the community of Glendevon on Saturday, as gun crimes continue to dominate the crime profile of the parish, which has seen 82 murders since the start of the year, 24 more than the 58 recorded for the corresponding period last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1483,448,20,49,30],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-electrician","tag-glendevon","tag-murder","tag-shot","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}