April 12, 2017
Carjackers murder St James taxi driver
ST JAMES, Jamaica — A taxi driver was shot dead by unknown assailants and his body thrown from the moving vehicle along the Mount Salem main road in St James last night.
Dead is 64-year-old Clifford Dixon, a taxi operator of Clark Street, Mount Salem in the parish.
Reports from the Montego Bay police are that about 7:30 pm, Dixon was transporting two men in his motor vehicle when on reaching a section of the road; the men brandished handguns and demanded his motorcar.
It is alleged that Dixon resisted and was consequently shot multiple times and thrown from the vehicle. The assailants escaped in his motorcar.
The police were summoned and he was taken to the hospital where he died while undergoing treatment.
Investigations continue.
