MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The Cross Keys Police in Southern Manchester is investigating the death of a resident who on Friday succumbed to chop wounds reportedly inflicted by a man believed to be of unsound mind.

Reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) are that the deceased Ainsworth Porter, 30, was involved in a dispute with the alleged perpetrator about 8:50 am in the community of Warwick when a machete was used to chop him.

Porter was pronounced dead at hospital.

Friday’s incident came less than two months after a policeman suffered a machete wound while on patrol in Christiana by a man also said to be of unsound mind.

The injury resulted in him having to undergo corrective surgery to his face.

That incident fuelled concerns from Superintendent for the Manchester Police Division Wayne Cameron and Mayor of Mandeville Donovan Mitchell about the dangers persons of unsound mind pose to residents when they are not properly monitored.

Alicia Sutherland