Gunmen kill two women in separate incidents
Published:Saturday | December 31, 2022 | 12:51 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter
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Sleuths are probing the execution-style killing of two women in St Thomas and St Andrew as the 2022 murder tally continues to climb. The first killing took place at Navar Lane in Seaforth, St Thomas. Reports are that about 6:45 p.m., 30-year-old...
Sleuths are probing the execution-style killing of two women in St Thomas and St Andrew as the 2022 murder tally continues to climb.
The first killing took place at Navar Lane in Seaforth, St Thomas.
Reports are that about 6:45 p.m., 30-year-old Tiyana ‘Tooks’ Ewart was at home when an armed man entered her yard, and shot her multiple times in her head and upper body.
The Gleaner understands that there was a tussle as the gunman pounced upon Ewart, but he managed to squeeze the trigger before making his escape on foot.
The police were summoned and Ewart was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The murder took the parish’s homicide total to 40 in 2022, one more than for the corresponding period in 2021.
The St Thomas Criminal Investigation Branch is investigating.
Their counterparts at the Hunts Bay Police Station in the St Andrew South Police Division are also trying to piece together clues to solve another murder case.
Fifty-one-year-old Maxine Hylton, a bar owner of Grape Road in Kingston 11, was shot in the head multiple times on Thursday about 8:20 p.m. as she sat in front of her home.
Reports are that Hylton was among a group of persons on Grape Road, when a motorcycle approached with two men on board.
It is alleged that the pillion disembarked the motorcycle, and opened fire, hitting Hylton and sending the other people scampering for cover.
The police were summoned and the woman was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
As soon as investigators removed the police tapes from the scene, grieving family members began washing away the thick pools of blood at their gateway.
A resident of the community lamented the brutal attack.
“Right now, mi a woman and mi fraid. Dem deal with the woman like she a man. Dem evil,” she told The Gleaner.
“She gone leave her five children dem and grandchildren … . She just open her bar and a gwan mek ends meet. Dem just a kill off the woman dem so. Weh she do unuh?” the female resident said.
Other residents expressed that the murder may put a damper on businesses in the community.
The murder in the St Andrew South Division brings to 130 the number homicides to date this year, 33 less than the 163 killed in 2021.
The national murder toll up to December 27 was 1,481, an increase of 1.2 per cent year-on-year.