WESTERN BUREAU — Fifteen year-old Montego Bay student and resident of Rose Heights in the city, Tanisha Dehaney, was murdered near her home late Friday night, exactly one week after her father, Dennis, was murdered.

Up to yesterday afternoon, however, it was unclear whether there was a connection between the two murders, Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) officer for St James, Constable Camille Tracey, said.

Tanisha was shot at about 11:30 pm while in the company of a number of other people who were all attending a wake in memory of her late father.

She was standing among them, just outside her own home, when a gunshot was fired.

Witnesses said she cried out, held on to her side and ran into her yard where it was discovered she had been shot.

She was taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where she died while undergoing treatment.

Her father, Dennis, 43, was shot and killed last Friday by a man he is said to have known as he approached his gate at about 9:20 am.

Constable Tracey said the gunman had approached the older Dehaney in the company of another man, both of whom he (Dehaney) knew.

No motive has been established for either murder, the constable said, but the Mount Salem police are still carrying out investigations.

Meanwhile, Elvis Codlin, a 43-year-old Jamaica Union of Travellers Association bus operator of Upper King Street, was also murdered in the city on Friday shortly before midnight.

Codlin was reportedly at a Montego Bay nightclub when an altercation developed between himself and another man, who has been identified as George Stephenson of a Glendevon address.

During the altercation, Stephenson is said to have brandished a knife and used it to stab Codlin in the head, chest and right side, after which he fled the scene.

Detectives from the Montego Bay Criminal Investigation Branch are searching for Stephenson.

The killings bring to 33, the number of murders committed in the parish since the start of the year.