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April 22, 2011

Double murder in Dunkirk

‘Runkus’ and ‘Stumpy’ attacked while watching TV at shop

THE Kingston East police are probing a double murder in the McKintyre Villa community last night.

The dead men have been identified as 49-year-old Peter Escoffery, otherwise called ‘Stumpy’ of Macintyre Villa, and Kenique Richards, otherwise called ‘Runkus’ of Lincoln Terrace, both in Kingston 16 were killed in Macintyre Villa, also known as ‘Dunkirk’, last night.

The Major Investigations Taskforce (MIT) report that, about 11:40 pm, Escoffery and Richards were among several men at a shop watching TV when a group of men armed with high powered guns alighted from a motorcar and opened fire at them. Richards died on the spot. Escoffery and another man were taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead and the other man admitted in serious condition.

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