KINGSTON, Jamaica – Gunmen posing as cops murdered three men on Chisholm Avenue in St Andrew on Saturday morning.
The dead men have been identified as 28-year-old mason, Alex Orlando Ricketts; 31-year-old Nava ‘Fatta’ Ricketts, also a mason; and Ricardo Dwight Henry, otherwise called ‘Rasta’, a 48-year-old delivery man.
The deceased are all from the same address on Chisholm Avenue in Kingston 13. The Ricketts are brothers, and Henry is their cousin, the police said.
It was reported that around 1:15 am, three men armed with rifles and posing as police officers entered the premises and took the three men from their dwelling house.
It was further reported that the gunmen led them at gunpoint to another dwelling house on the premises, where they opened gunfire, hitting all three men in the upper body and killing them on the spot.
The gunmen then made their escape on foot in the area.
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