{"id":665,"date":"2017-09-29T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2017-09-29T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:35:42","slug":"two-killed-in-drive-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in drive-by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barrington Flemming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <\/strong><em>Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>M<strong>urders continue unabated in the parish of St. James, despite a mass deployment of policemen and soldiers, with two men shot and killed on Thursday morning, and two others injured in a drive-by shooting in the volatile Paradise, Norwood community. A seven-year-old girl was also injured in the attack. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dead men have been identified as 37-year-old Sanjay Beckford, aka \u2018Punky\u2019 of Norwood and 32-year-old Sheldon Bailey, otherwise called \u2018Pressa\u2019, a plumber of Providence, both in the parish.<\/p>\n<p>Reports are that about 7:48 a.m., Beckford was taking his seven-year-old daughter to school, when upon reaching Hugga Square, a Toyota motorcar drove up and men alighted from the vehicle and opened gunfire hitting them.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey and the injured man, known as \u2018Uncle\u2019, who were in the vicinity of the attack, were also hit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 24 hours before, 22-year-oldJerome Chung, unemployed of Bobman Hill, Lilliput in St. James, was shot and killed by unknown assailant(s) and another man shot and wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Barrett Town Police reportthat about 6:15 a.m., Chung and the other man were pounced upon by three unknown assailant\/s, who opened fire hitting both men.\u00a0 Chung was hit in the abdomen and the other man in the ankle.<\/p>\n<p>The Police were later summoned and both men were rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, where Chung was pronounced dead and the other man admitted in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrington Flemming &#8211; Staff Reporter &nbsp; Murders continue unabated in the parish of St. James, despite a mass deployment of policemen and soldiers, with two men shot and killed on Thursday morning, and two others injured in a drive-by shooting in the volatile Paradise, Norwood community. A seven-year-old girl was also injured in the attack. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[130,31],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drive-by","tag-st-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}