ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – A delivery man was shot dead while transporting goods at Portmore Parkway in Portmore, St Catherine, on Tuesday afternoon.
He has been identified as 36-year-old Oshane McLean, from Dreamland Drive in Old Braeton in the municipality.
It was reported that around midday, McLean went to Portmore Parkway in a truck to deliver hardware items. While McLean unloaded the truck, a grey motor vehicle drove up.
Police said a man, armed with a handgun, alighted from the vehicle and opened gunfire hitting the now-deceased several times.
McLean was rushed by police, who were quickly on the scene, to the Spanish Town Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 1 pm.
No motive has yet been established for the killing, the police said.
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