{"id":3537,"date":"2020-06-24T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2020-06-24T17:12:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:12:35","slug":"promoter-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Promoter killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Montego Bay police were, on Monday, called to the scene of another homicide in the city, with the brazen daylight killing of popular Montego Bay show promoter, 47-year-old Barrington Smith, also known as \u2018Bounty\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initial reports indicate that Smith, who lived at Blood Lane in Glendevon and Red Dirt in Flanker, and who also operated as a dollar-trader, with strong links to a money transfer company, was in a building at lower Union Street which he frequents, when he received a call approximately 2:10 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is alleged to have walked from the building onto the street with his phone, when a car drove up behind him. Men in the motor vehicle, who were armed with guns, alighted and opened fire hitting him several times in the back and head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The car then sped from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith was rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montego Bay police were, on Monday, called to the scene of another homicide in the city, with the brazen daylight killing of popular Montego Bay show promoter, 47-year-old Barrington Smith, also known as \u2018Bounty\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1812,1813,112,818,1811,330],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-barrington-flemming","tag-bounty","tag-cornwall-regional-hospital","tag-montego-bay-police","tag-promoter-killed","tag-union-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","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=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}