UPDATE: Suspect in Clarendon chopping death now in police custody
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February 15, 2021

UPDATE: Suspect in Clarendon chopping death now in police custody

CLARENDON, Jamaica — The police have arrested the man suspected of chopping 61-year-old Sharon Cole to death in Crooked River, Clarendon yesterday.

The police said the suspect was picked up a short while ago in Kingston.

Cole was killed about 5:10 pm after she reportedly got into an argument with a man.

It is alleged that the argument escalated and the man used a machete to chop Cole several times all over her body.

She was taken to the hospital, however, she was pronounced dead on arrival.

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