Howard Campbell, Gleaner WriterA REUNION of childhood friends ended in tragedy for a 26-year-old man in the east Kingston community of Waterloo Road on Monday evening.
Miguel Wilson, a welder from nearby Langston Road, was killed when a group of men drove through Waterloo Road just before 8:30 p.m.
Wilson died instantly, while three of the men with whom he was having a roadside drink were wounded. At press time, two of the injured men were still in hospital.
The other, who was shot in the left arm, also sustained a graze to the head, and was released from hospital Monday evening.
He told The Gleaner that one of the injured men is visiting from the United States, and was with five boyhood friends when the gunmen drove up in a "dark car" and opened fire. As they scurried to safety, Wilson was mortally wounded by a bullet to the chest. One of the hospitalised men sustained gunshot wounds to both arms, while the other was struck in the abdomen.
No politics
A member of the Kingston Eastern police division said no arrests have been made in the case. He said Monday's incident was not politically linked.
Wilson's mother, Elaine Reynolds, is devastated by the loss of the third of her four children.
"Mi nuh know why dem kill mi baby ... Him nice and 'mannersable'," she said, sobbing.
Langston and Waterloo roads are located in the constituency of St. Andrew South East where the ruling People's National Party's Maxine Henry-Wilson is Member of Parlia-ment. The constituency, which has a history of political violence, is expected to be hotly contested by Henry-Wilson and the Jamaica Labour Party's Joan Gordon-Webley, in the upcoming general election.
