EIGHT PEOPLE were killed between Tuesday night and yesterday, pushing the murder tally to at least 1,647 since the start of the year.
Yesterday morning, 36-year-old taxi operator, Andrew Lowe of Albion district, St. James, was shot dead by a gunman on King Street, Montego Bay.
In the other incidents, 25-year-old Delroy Miller was killed allegedly by his common-law wife Keisha Richards, in Bastard Cedar Walk, Westmoreland, Tuesday night.
Miller was killed during a reported quarrel with Richards who has since been arrested by the Whithorn police.
Also in Western Jamaica, 40-year-old Michael Whorms of Barclay Street, Westmoreland and a man identified only as 'Fowler' from Canterbury, St. James were shot dead in separate incidents about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Whorms was killed on Barclay Street, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and Fowler in North Gully, St. James.
Homicide units from St. Andrew South and Half-Way Tree are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of three persons in the Corporate Area on Tuesday night.
Those killed are 21-year-old Jermaine Forester, of Phase 1, Mexico, in Arnett Gardens; 29-year-old Patrick Morrison, also known as 'Homa', of Saunders Crescent and 27-year-old Donovan Bailey, otherwise called 'Jah Love' of Seba Crescent, Olympic Gardens.
In St. Catherine, 38-year-old Everton Alexander Jones was killed and a 20-year-old woman shot and injured on Chatsworth Road in Waterford, on Tuesday evening.
According to the Constabulary Communication Network, at about 8:45 p.m., Jones and a female companion were in front of premises at Chatsworth Road when two men armed with guns approached them.
The gunmen opened fire hitting Jones and the woman. The injured persons were taken to the Spanish Town Hospital where Jones was pronounced dead and the woman treated.
