Six killed over weekend

AT LEAST six people were killed in separate incidents across the island over the weekend, according to police blotters.

The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) has identified them as Anthony Davis, 51, taxi-operator of Park Avenue, Kingston; Collin Meade, 15, of Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11; Wellesley Thompson, 32, labourer of Grange District, Hanover; Damion Malcolm, 21, of Coal Lane, Spanish Town, St. Catherine; a man known only as "Kevin" of no fixed address, and another man called "Shawn" of Tredegar Park, St. Catherine.

According to the CCN, Davis was found dead early yesterday morning at Rock Spring, Rockfort in Kingston with his left front pants pocket turned out. He had gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen. The police theorise robbery as the motive for the killing.

Meade was shot dead by one of two gunmen at about 3:25 p.m. while walking with a friend on Orange Street, downtown Kingston on Saturday. His friend was gunbutted and was taken to hospital.

The CCN said Thompson was standing at a shop when he was approached by a man identified as Collin Samuels and another man known as 'Preckay', with whom he had an argument earlier. Both men pulled machetes and attacked Thompson, who also pulled his machete and chopped at his attackers. During the fight, Thompson was chopped in the head and taken to hospital were he died. Shortly after Samuels turned up at hospital with a machete wound to his head. The police arrested him and placed him under police guard.

Malcolm's body was found on Coal Lane on Saturday with gunshots wounds to the head and neck after residents reportedly heard explosions and called the police.

The police reported that Kevin, Shawn and another man, whose name they have withheld, were shot and injured by unidentified person(s) while they walked along a riverbed at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town on Saturday. All three men were taken to hospital where Kevin and Shawn were pronounced dead and the other man admitted in stable condition.

The CCN also reported that three people drowned over the weekend. One of them is Charvis Richards, 6, of Bodles, St. Catherine who drowned on Saturday when he and another boy went to bathe in a canal.

The others, 17-year-old Richard Rattigan, and 21-year-old Kevin Taylor, both of Pondside district, St. Elizabeth, drowned in a pond in the parish, also on Saturday. Both had gone fishing in a canoe along with two other men and were returning home when one of them decided to swim ashore. One man jumped into the water and the canoe capsized with the other three. Rattigan and Taylor got into difficulties and subsequently drowned.

An 88-year-old man, George Stewart, of Pele Street, Flankers, St. James is suspected of committing suicide. Mr. Stewart's body was found with a piece of electrical cord tied around the neck at his home on Saturday.

A 29-year-old man, Ewan Gibbs, of Second Street, Albion, St. James, died in a motor vehicle accident on the A.G.R Highway in St. Ann yesterday. The CCN reported that Gibbs and three other persons were passengers in a Toyota Sprinter motor car driven by 39-year-old Woodroy Gibbs. The driver lost control and smashed into a utility pole, killing Gibbs. The others were treated at hospital.

It was not ascertained if the Gibbs are relatives.

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