Homeless man dead, two injured after attack on Ocho Rios football grounds
ST ANN, Jamaica – A 50-year-old man is dead and two other people are injured following an incident on the grounds of the Ocho Rios football field in St Ann on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Junior Haye, who is said to have been homeless.
Reports from the Ocho Rios Police are that about 3:20 am, Haye and a woman were asleep in a building on the grounds of the football field when they were attacked.
It is alleged that the attacker hit Haye and the woman in the head with a sharp object.
According to the lawmen, a man that was in another section of the building heard the commotion and went to assist when he was also hit.
The police were summoned and the injured persons were assisted to the hospital where Haye died while being treated and the other two persons admitted.
This is the second murder in the parish in two days.
On Thursday, 31-year-old businessman Robert Williams was gunned down at his establishment. He was shot in the head by a gunman.