WESTERN BUREAU – The St James police were confident, yesterday, that they will soon make an arrest in last Friday’s murder of Telesha Hall whose car was sprayed with bullets as she and her husband sat along the Mount Salem main road in Montego Bay.

Renordo Hall, a bartender at Couples Negril Resort, is now listed in critical condition in hospital.

For Telesha’s mother, 57 year-old Mary Jackson, her child’s death is almost too much to bear. She was given the bad news over the phone. She is the third daughter Jackson has lost in the past two years. One became ill and died, the other was killed in an accident.

Jackson is left now with three daughters and two sons to help her grieve the loss of her fifth-born daughter.

After being shot last Thursday night, the 29 year-old hairdresser died the next morning on the way to the Kingston Public Hospital for treatment. She became the parish’s eleventh murder victim.

According to the police, the Hall’s Mitsubishi Galant motorcar was sprayed with bullets at about 11:20 pm. As the couple sat in the vehicle, a blue Toyota Caldina motorcar drove up, a man got out of the Caldina and opened fire.

The Galant was riddled with bullets.

Mr Hall, who was behind the wheel, tried to drive away but the car crashed into a concrete column.

His wife was shot in her head and feet, while he was shot in both arms and the back of his neck. The police said they recovered 18 9mm spent shells and a number of warheads from the scene.

The Halls were taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where Mr Hall was admitted and preparations were made to have his wife transferred to the Kingston Public Hospital. She never made it. She died when the medical vehicle in which she was travelling reached Falmouth in the nearby parish of Trelawny.

On Friday, deputy superintendent of police in charge of administration, C R Smith, said the police were pursuing leads in connection with the case.

“I can tell you that nothing will be spared to bring the killers or killer to justice,” Smith said. “We have leads that we are following, and they are positive – and we have been getting the co-operation of the citizens – hence I think there will be a further breakthrough.”