Bloody Bay
Another triple murder rocks Second City as 6 killed across St James within hours
Published:Thursday | March 31, 2022 | 12:11 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer
Six persons were murdered in St James between on Tuesday in four attacks, including a triple murder in the community of Rose Heights in Montego Bay, the second mass shooting in one of the troubled communities in the Second City within days.
Those killed in the triple homicide have been identified as 22-year-old ramp attendant Jevaughn Dove; 20-year-old Kirk Taylor, otherwise called ‘Chicken’; and Romon Warlock, otherwise called ‘Brains’ – all of Matches Lane in Rose Heights.
A 28-year-old labourer was also injured in the attack.
Reports are that about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the four men were among a group of persons standing along Matches Lane, when a Toyota Allison motor car drove up.
Three men alighted from the vehicle and opened fire, hitting the men before fleeing.
Taylor died on the spot, while Dove and Warlock succumbed to their injuries at hospital.
When The Gleaner visited Matches Lane on Wednesday afternoon, the main street leading through the community was transformed into a ghost town. The sole person on the street – a male – was too timid to speak with the press at length.
“The place stay a way,” he said, noting that the community was on edge.
“All mi can seh is that the youth den who dead a good youth dem,” he commented, adding that residents believed that the targets of the attack were not slain.
A senior investigator told The Gleaner that it appears that the shooting was an act of reprisal for the killing of a male in Mount Salem earlier that day.
The senior cop said that the police were yet to make a breakthrough into this latest triple killing.
Tuesday’s incident was the third triple murder in the parish of St James since the start of the year and the second such within four days.
Hours before, 26-year-old Michael Dillon, otherwise called ‘Alex’, was shot dead in Mount Salem about 10 a.m.
Shortly after, 35-year-old Delano Spence was also shot and killed in Plantation Heights, while on Tuesday night a man known as Adrian ‘AR’ Spence, was gunned down at Bamboo Lawn in Lilliput, all in St James.
St James has recorded 59 murders since the start of the year.