ST JAMES, Jamaica — A woman killed earlier this afternoon in the Great River section of St James has been identified as 52-year-old Rose Christian, from Woodland District in Hanover. Her 36-year-old son, Kenique Christian, was also shot, and has been hospitalised.
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Police are still processing the scene which is said to be a cook shop that the woman operated.
The shooting took place on the side of a heavily travelled section of the main road, leading towards Hanover.
St James leads the island as the police division with the most killings so far this year.
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