(Jamaica Observer) While the brutal killing of promising young attorney-at-law Sashakay Fairclough has shocked, in particular, the parishes of St Ann and St James where she practises mainly, the police have no leads yet into the murder, nor has a motive been established.
Fairclough, whose age police gave as 31, but who two years ago told the Jamaica Observer that she was 27, which would make her 29 now, was shot dead as she drove her car in the Brook Green area of the northern resort town of Ocho Rios Friday evening. She succumbed to her wounds at hospital.
Her mother, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was also shot and has been admitted to hospital in a “serious but stable condition”, police sources confirmed to the Sunday Observer yesterday.
Initial police reports are that a car drove up alongside that which Fairclough and her mom were in, and armed men started firing into the vehicle, hitting Fairclough in the upper body and leg.
Police said that Fairclough’s mother was shot in the abdomen.
One police source said that the incident had all the ingredients of a contract-style killing but insisted that it was too early to conclude that.
“We are continuing our investigations. So far, we have no leads, but we will stop at nothing to apprehend the attackers,” one senior police officer who asked not to be named, because he was not leading the investigation, told the Sunday Observer yesterday.
