(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James – Residents of Upper King Street were on edge on Monday night following Sunday evening’s shooting attack which left three members of the community, including an elderly woman, dead.
Another man, who was shot and injured, is now hospitalised in stable condition.
The deceased, all of St James addresses, have been identified as 67-year-old, retiree, Nesline Young, 24-year-old porter Everald Wesley both of Upper King Street, and 38-year-old shopkeeper Heron Foster, also called Bogart, of a RoseMount address.
Reports are that Sunday, at about 6:25 pm a group of persons were at a shop, operated by Foster, along Upper King Street, when two gun-toting men alighted from a silver Toyota motor car and started firing shots.
Four injured members of the group, were rushed to hospital, where Young, Wesley and Foster were pronounced dead and the other wounded man admitted in stable condition.
The police say, 23 9-mm cartridges were removed from the scene.
Meanwhile, a source told the Jamaica Observer that the deadly attack took place in the same vicinity where the late former leader of the Stone Crusher gang, Eldon Culvert, was shot and injured earlier this year.
