WESTMORELAND, Jamaica – Detectives assigned to the Westmoreland Police Division arrested and charged a man following the killing of 30-year-old Shantal Calder-Whittingham otherwise called ‘Pokie’ of Brighton district, Little London in the parish on Saturday August 12.

He is 23-year-old Odain Barron, otherwise called ‘Bududup’ or ‘Indian’, a labourer of Coolie Town District, Paradise, Westmoreland.

Reports from the Savanna-la-mar police are that about 3:30 pm, Calder-Whittingham and her relatives were leaving home when four men, one of whom they had a dispute with, reportedly approached them.

The men allegedly opened gunfire hitting them and escaped. The police were summoned and, on their arrival, Calder-Whittingham and her relatives were seen lying in the roadway in a pool of blood. They were assisted to hospital where Calder-Whittingham was pronounced dead.

Barron was arrested during an operation in Westmoreland on Friday, August 25. He gave a caution statement to the police and was later charged with murder, shooting with intent, and unauthorised possession of a prohibited weapon.

His court date is being arranged.