MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Police and a political representative have confirmed that a man who was shot seven times last month in Ticky Ticky near Coleyville in northeast Manchester has succumbed at hospital.

The man identified as Oliver Hall, 53, otherwise called ‘Bag a gold’ died at hospital Tuesday night three weeks after he was attacked by a gunman in his community.

A police report said on December 16 about 3:00 pm Hall was in the community near his residence when a gunman attacked him and opened fire.

He was rushed to hospital and underwent emergency surgery.

Councillor Omar Miller (Jamaica Labour Party, Craighead division) said Hall spoke to him at hospital shortly after a rumor spread about Hall’s death immediately after the shooting.

“He got seven shots and was in the hospital and so when the news got out first that he had passed you know the community went into mourning, but shortly after I received a call from an unknown number and it was the same individual who got shot and he said that he was in the hospital and he was stable, but he was ensuring the public that they don’t have a second attack on him, so he advised to send that message out,” Miller said at a funeral in Craighead on Thursday.

“We had a good discussion and I went to the hospital as one of the few persons who visited him and I said to him man for one to receive seven shots and to be alive you have to give God thanks,” added Miller.

Hall reportedly recounted the gun attack to the politician.

“He was telling me that when the shooter fired several rounds at him he started to run. The guy chased him down. When the [gunman] stood over him and he squeezed the trigger for the last one, he shifted his head and so when he shifted his head the bullet lodged in the upper part of his neck,” said Miller.

“He was saying he was such a lucky fellow and we were joking about it and he said ‘Mr Miller a skill me skill’. I got another call a day ago that the message went out that he died and I said maybe he is tricking the crowd again, but when I called the number I realised it rang without answer.”

— Kasey Williams

File photo of police at the shooting scene on December 16 in Tick Ticky, Manchester.

File photo of police at the shooting scene on December 16 in Tick Ticky, Manchester