Gunmen posing as goat buyers shoot farmer in Manchester
MANCHESTER, Jamaica – Gunmen posing as goat buyers shot a 50-year-old farmer at his home in St Paul’s district in Manchester on Sunday afternoon.
The farmer has since been hospitalised in serious but stable condition, the police said.
Reports are that sometime in the morning, the farmer received several phone calls from someone arranging to purchase goats. Around 1:00 pm, a silver Toyota motor car drove up in his yard.
Two men who alighted from the vehicle, leaving the driver, went to the farmer and told him of their intention to purchase a goat from him.
The farmer walked to the pen with the men and was in the process of showing them the goats when both brandished handguns pointed at him and told him not to move.
The farmer ran off, and the men fired several rounds in his direction, hitting him on his upper body. The men then escaped in the waiting motor vehicle. The farmer was rushed to hospital.
No motive has been established for the attack, the police said.