{"id":3381,"date":"2020-02-19T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:50:55","slug":"killed-in-robbery-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Killed in robbery attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Attacker in hospital under police guard<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Barrington Flemming &#8211; <\/strong>Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A woman who bravely\nattempted to foil a robbery attempt at her home at St. Lucia Avenue in Cornwall\nCourt, Montego Bay, on Saturday, was shot and killed by the assailant, who was\nreportedly admitted in hospital under police guard nursing stab wounds\nsustained during the attack. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim has been identified as, 58-year-old Sydele\nMalcolm, otherwise called \u2018Syble\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports indicate that about 3:58, Malcolm and other family\nmembers were asleep in the house when they were awoken by strange sounds and\nwent to investigate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was discovered that a group of armed men had broken into\nthe house. Malcolm reportedly became engaged in a tussle with one of the\nrobbers and inflicted several stab wounds to his body.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man, who was armed with a gun, retaliated by opening\nfire at Malcolm hitting her several times including in her head.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was subsequently taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital\nwhere she was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a short time later, a man suspected to be her\nattacker, turned up at hospital nursing several stab wounds.&nbsp; He was subsequently placed under police\nguard.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, this latest murder has triggered a call from\nresidents of Cornwall Court to the authorities to erect a major security wall\nbetween Cornwall Court and the neighbouring Salt Spring community, as it has\nbeen purported that the men who attempted to rob Malcolm\u2019s house were from that\narea.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacker in hospital under police guard Barrington Flemming &#8211; Staff Reporter A woman who bravely attempted to foil a robbery attempt at her home at St. Lucia Avenue in Cornwall Court, Montego Bay, on Saturday, was shot and killed by the assailant, who was reportedly admitted in hospital under police guard nursing stab wounds sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1060,112,19,1432,1762,1764,1763,30],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cornwall-court","tag-cornwall-regional-hospital","tag-montego-bay","tag-robbery","tag-st-lucia-avenue","tag-syble","tag-sydele-malcolm","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","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=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}