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54-y-o found hanging at Clarendon home
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May 14, 2016

54-y-o found hanging at Clarendon home

CLARENDON, Jamaica – Fifty-four-year-old Samuel Perkins, otherwise called ‘Eddie’ and ‘Jungle’, of Dawkins Land, Colonel Ridge in Clarendon, is suspected to have committed suicide at his home yesterday evening.

Reports from police in Chapelton are that about 6:00 pm, relatives went to check on Perkins but found him hanging by a rope from a mango tree in the back of his yard. 

The police were summoned, the scene processed and the body removed to the morgue.

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