One dead, four injured after highway shooting, crash
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – A man is dead and four people are hospitalised following a vehicular collision and shooting on the North-South Highway on Sunday.
Reports are that about 5:40 pm, five persons were travelling in a Nissan Sylphy motor car from an event in St Ann, when on reaching a section of Ocho Rios they were intercepted by three vehicles whose occupants opened gunfire on them before escaping in the area.
The driver, who sustained injuries, drove off in search of medical attention and lost control of the vehicle which crashed into a ravine in the vicinity of Caymanas Gardens in St Catherine.
The police were contacted and the occupants of the car were assisted to the hospital where they were admitted. A man known only as ‘Dada’ of a Greenwich Farm, Kingston 13 address succumbed to his injuries.
Portmore police are investigating.