{"id":705,"date":"2017-10-13T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2017-10-13T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:48:13","slug":"two-more-mobay-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Two more MoBay murders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noelita Lawrence <\/strong><\/p>\n

Staff Reporter<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Downtown Montego Bay erupted with gunfire in the wee hours of Thursday morning, October 12, leaving two men, a barber and a bread vendor, dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dead men have been identified as 38-year-old Marlon Gayle, a bread vendor of Catherine Lane, and 34-year-old Andra Williams, a barber of Red Dirt, Flanker, both in St.\u00a0 James.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two men were killed hours apart and metres away from each other.<\/p>\n

In the first killing, which occurred about 12:05 a.m., Williams, the barber, was along the intersection of St. James Street and the popular Barnett Street near the police station.<\/p>\n

It is reported that police personnel on duty at the station heard explosions and went to investigate.<\/p>\n

The report indicates that upon arriving near the scene, a man, armed with two guns, was observed running towards a black motor vehicle when further gunshots rang out.<\/p>\n

The man seen running entered a waiting vehicle which then sped off along with another that was parked behind it.<\/p>\n

Checks of the area revealed the bullet-riddled body of Williams, who was then rushed to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n

BREADMAN CUT DOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just over an hour later, detectives were again summoned into action. This time along the nearby Catherine Lane.<\/p>\n

In this instance, Gayle was found motionless and with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

Police reports are that approximately 1:45 a.m., Gayle\u2019s common law wife was at home with their children when gunshots were heard.<\/p>\n

A check was made and Gayle\u2019s body was seen lying with bullet wounds.<\/p>\n

The police were called.<\/p>\n

No motive has been established for any of the killings.<\/p>\n

The latest killings come on the heels of a spate of killings and shootings in and around the outskirts of the second city at the weekend.<\/p>\n

In those incidents, two men were gunned down and another left injured.<\/p>\n

The latest killings have pushed the murder tally to 241 in the parish since the start of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noelita Lawrence Staff Reporter   Downtown Montego Bay erupted with gunfire in the wee hours of Thursday morning, October 12, leaving two men, a barber and a bread vendor, dead. The dead men have been identified as 38-year-old Marlon Gayle, a bread vendor of Catherine Lane, and 34-year-old Andra Williams, a barber of Red Dirt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147,146,148,31],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andra-williams","tag-downtown-montego-bay","tag-more-murders","tag-st-james"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}