Jamaica student dies after taxi shot up

(Jamaica Gleaner) Vere Technical High School student Odale Planters, 14, has succumbed to injuries sustained last night when the robot taxi in which he was traveling was shot up on the Comfort Road in Osbourne Store, Clarendon.

Ricardo Williams, 25, The driver of the taxi died on the spot.

According to the police, shortly after 7 oโ€™clock last night, the man was driving the robot taxi along the Comfort Road.

The sequence of what happened was not immediately available but soon after the shooting the man lay dead.

The student was taken to the hospital where he later succumbed.