{"id":990,"date":"2017-12-29T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2017-12-29T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:02:23","slug":"highway-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"HIGHWAY MURDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-993\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-993\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Aaron-Taylor-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Aaron-Taylor-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Aaron-Taylor.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Two men were murdered in broad daylight along the busy Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay, St. James yesterday, Thursday, December 28, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They have been identified as 42-year-old Kerry Orville Fairclough, otherwise called \u2018Biggs\u2019 of Ranch Road, Westgreen, and 41-year-old Aaron Taylor, also called \u2018Carlo\u2019 of Coral Gardens, both in St. James.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-994\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-994\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crime-Scene-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crime-Scene-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crime-Scene-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crime-Scene.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crime scene detectives examine the Toyota Caldina in which both men were travelling when they were ambushed and killed along the Howard Cooke Boulevard on Thursday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Information reaching the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong> indicates that about 12:10 p.m., Fairclough and Taylor were travelling in a black Toyota Caldina along the highway when they stopped at a filter lane, intent on turning into the Catherine Hall community.<\/p>\n<p>A silver Nissan Tiida reportedly pulled up beside their vehicle and men from the car armed with guns alighted and opened fire, hitting both men.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who was the driver of the vehicle, ran from the vehicle and collapsed and died on the roadway, while Fairclough\u2019s body was found inside the car.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigators are yet to come up with a motive for the deadly attack, which caused a major traffic pile-up in the city for most of the day. The police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 119 or any police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were murdered in broad daylight along the busy Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay, St. James yesterday, Thursday, December 28, 2017. They have been identified as 42-year-old Kerry Orville Fairclough, otherwise called \u2018Biggs\u2019 of Ranch Road, Westgreen, and 41-year-old Aaron Taylor, also called \u2018Carlo\u2019 of Coral Gardens, both in St. James. 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