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Three men shot, one fatally, in St James

Published:Thursday | August 22, 2024 | 1:52 PM
No motive has been established for the attack.

The St James police have launched an investigation into a gun attack on Tuesday which left one man dead and two others injured in Flankers.

Dead is 20-year-old labourer Jason Lawrence, otherwise called 'Dirty', of West Side in Flankers.

It is reported that about 8:20 a.m. Lawrence and two other men were in a section of Church Hill in the community when upon reaching the vicinity of a community centre they were shot by unknown assailants.

They were assisted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where Lawrence was pronounced dead, while the two other men were admitted.

No motive has been established for the attack.

- Rasbert Turner

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