UPDATE: Suspect in Highgate grave digging killing turns himself in
ST MARY, Jamaica — The suspect in a murder committed at the Highgate cemetery in St Mary on Wednesday turned himself in to the police today.
According to police reports, the deceased, Damion Watson, otherwise called ‘Percy’ and Linval Edwards were both engaged in grave digging when an argument developed between them.
Edwards allegedly stabbed Watson three times in the neck. Watson was rushed to the Annotto Bay hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Edwards reportedly fled the scene but later turned himself in to the police.
According to residents, both men grew up together in the Harmony Hall community.
No one can say what led to the confrontation between them.
