{"id":3091,"date":"2019-10-02T20:53:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2019-10-02T20:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:53:25","slug":"more-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3091","title":{"rendered":"More murders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Crime sleuths in St.\nJames have been kept on their toes with another three murders committed in the\nparish in as many days, pushing the tally closer to the 120 mark.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information gleaned so far in the latest incident is\nsketchy, but indications are that at minutes to 8 o\u2019clock Tuesday morning, a\nman who is said to be a resident of McCatty Street, known only as \u2018Walker\u2019 or\n\u2018Frass\u2019, was driving along the popular Hart Street in Montego Bay when gunshots\nrang out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was later discovered slumped over the steering wheel of a\nToyota motor vehicle, which had crashed into the rear of another car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, a probe has been launched into the shooting death\nof artist Orlando Hennington, otherwise called \u2018Fiddo\u2019 or \u2018Scheemers\u2019, who was\nshot and killed in Anchovy on Sunday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents reported hearing explosions in the area about 11\np.m. They, however, went to make checks on Monday about 6:10 p.m., and\ndiscovered Hennington\u2019s body in a house and called the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police found Hennington in a one-bedroom board house\nlying motionless on his left side on the floor in a pool of blood, with what\nappeared to be gunshot wounds to the head and upper body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was later transported to the Cornwall Regional Hospital,\nwhere he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier on Sunday, a man was shot and killed by unknown\nassailants along the Home Hill road in the upscale community of Ironshore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Coral Gardens police, who are investigating, report that\nabout 3:30p.m., residents discovered an abandoned motor car along the main road\nand summoned the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawmen on their arrival, discovered a purple Toyota Voxy\nmotor vehicle, while a man was observed next to the motor vehicle, lying in a\npool of blood, suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man, who was clad in a black T-shirt and blue jeans\npants, was rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, where he succumbed to his\nwounds while undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime sleuths in St. James have been kept on their toes with another three murders committed in the parish in as many days, pushing the tally closer to the 120 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,233,258,390,30],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-murders","tag-shootings","tag-state-of-public-emergency","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","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=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}