Man killed, another injured in Ocho Rios gun attack
Published:Tuesday | September 3, 2024 | 9:30 AM
The St Ann police are probing the shooting of two men, one fatally, in Ocho Rios last night.
Dead is 45-year-old Shane Mattadeen, otherwise called 'King', of Norbrook Acres Drive and Mahogany Beach in Ocho Rios.
The injured man is a 26-year-old unemployed of an Old Harbour, St Catherine address.
It is reported that about 10:00 p.m. residents near Mahogany Beach heard explosions and summoned the police.
Mattadeen and the other man was found suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds.
They were assisted to the St Ann's Bay Regional Hospital where Mattadeen was pronounced dead and the injured man admitted.
- Rasbert Turner
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